Tariffs on. Tariffs off. Tariffs on again. Is America’s unpredictability and borderline hostility towards traditional trading partners eroding longtime relationships? Is the U.S. unilaterally rewriting the rules of global commerce, and if so who benefits?
It’s easy to get pulled into the dizzying play-by-play of President Donald Trump’s tariff policy, but his disruptive approach to trade raises an array of broader questions as well. Here to help us make sense of it all is Jeffry Frieden, a Columbia University professor of international and public affairs who specializes in that field.
