Trump’s Tariffs Do Bite — When He Actually Imposes Them
President Donald Trump during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22.
Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/BloombergDonald Trump has imposed more tariffs than any American president in at least a century – but only a fraction of the ones he’s threatened.
The withdrawal this week of a proposed charge on European nations over Greenland is the latest example of how Trump sometimes wields the tariff weapon without firing it. And the number of unrealized threats is stacking up.