23-07-2025
How foreign leaders should respond to Trump's tariff threats
Dominic Pino is the economics editor and Thomas L. Rhodes fellow at National Review and host of the American Institute for Economic Research podcast 'Econception.'
Whether the Aug. 1 deadline for President Donald Trump's tariffs is actually binding remains to be seen — remember, April 2 was supposed to be 'Liberation Day' — but foreign leaders must be thinking about how they'll respond. In many cases, they've already threatened to react in kind and are weighing new tariffs on everything from Pennsylvania steel to Kentucky bourbon.
