Tariffs are like tolls at the border of progress. Zero them out, and watch innovation, prosperity, and collaboration surge.”

A 90-day tariff pause by a likely-returning Trump administration is more than a flicker in global trade winds. It is the unbottling of a genie that could either be squeezed back into mercantilist containment or be liberated to orchestrate a grand symphony of sustainable abundance.

The global trading system has reached a point of strategic inflection. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is on the cusp of transforming productivity. Converging technologies—blockchain, biotech, green hydrogen, precision agriculture, AI copilots—are tearing down barriers faster than policy can respond. Against this backdrop, the fundamental question is not whether we should tariff or de-tariff, but whether we can reimagine the very scaffolding of global exchange.

Let us dare to envision a world of zero tariffs, zero shackles, and a single unified medium of value exchange, where goods, ideas, people, and capital flow as freely as information. Such a system, frictionless and fair, holds the promise of exponential growth—one that is not extractive but regenerative, not competitive but collaborative.

The Pause That Provokes a Paradigm Shift

The 90-day tariff reprieve offered by the US is not a retreat. It is a deliberate recalibration, a negotiation window that masks deeper geopolitical shifts. Is this a temporary de-escalation in the ongoing battle of supply chain sovereignty? Perhaps. But it........

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