Trump’s New Tariffs: Just as Bad as the Old Tariffs

Ms. Sarin, a contributing Opinion writer, is a professor at Yale Law School who was an official in the Biden Treasury Department.

Effective tariff rates are going to change on Friday for the 45th time in the last 18 months — an average of once every 12 days. Rates will ratchet up yet again next month if President Trump’s recently announced 50 percent levy on some Canadian goods goes into effect.

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