Trump Wants Huge Tariff for Dollar Defectors, Fewer US Sanctions

Donald Trump pioneered new ways to use tariffs as a weapon of statecraft in his first presidency. He’s promising to go full-bore next time – and even deploy a jumbo version to protect the US dollar.

The GOP candidate is signaling he’ll ramp up America’s economic arsenal if he beats Kamala Harris in November. Trump has talked down the utility of sanctions — even though he applied plenty himself — after a record-busting barrage of them failed to halt Russia’s war in Ukraine. Sanctions, he’s said, should be used “very judiciously” — but tariffs are “phenomenal.”

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