Here’s What Trump’s Return Means for US Sanctions Policy

President-elect Donald Trump has hinted that he wants to use sanctions “as little as possible” in his second term in office, citing his preference for tariffs as a tool of economic diplomacy.

“I stopped wars with the threat of tariffs,” he said at the Economic Club of New York on Sept. 5, without going into details. “Sanctions have to be used very judiciously. We have things much more powerful actions than sanctions, we have trade, but we cannot lose our dollar standard.”