Donald Trump did not carry through his threat to introduce 15% tariffs overnight.
However, he did impose 10% tariffs on imports into the US on Tuesday, and the threatened 15% may be the least of his trade partners’ worries.
On Monday, the US president threatened to use tariffs in a “much more powerful and obnoxious way”, and he has several trade bazookas he can fire after the supreme court forced him to stop collecting tariffs from more than 90 countries.
Here are the trade weapons at Trump’s disposal:
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