While Trump did not fulfil a promise to impose new tariffs on US trading partners on “day one”, an executive memo ordered departmental reviews of existing trade practices, with a deadline of April 1.

The US became an outlier, looking on as others cultivated the art of the trade deal. Since 2017, the US has abandoned talks on partnerships with the EU and Asia, and cut not a single new trade deal.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reportedly ordered an immediate halt to work on virtually all existing foreign aid ...