Mr. Trump insists that these actions are his way of standing up for farmers and ranchers. Other nations such as Japan, China and India have charged higher tariffs than the U.S. for importing American farm goods.

Trump’s tariffs are a non-strategic, “broadly inflationary” tantrum backed by clearly contradictory rationales, according to trade expert Todd Tucker.

They could not have imagined a president would use emergency authority to bypass Congress and impose tariffs on the entire world.”