Tariffs have been a signature achievement of President Trump’s second term agenda, executed on a larger scale than even some of their most eager proponents were expecting. The administration says the effect will be a balanced trade deficit and a rebuilt manufacturing capability. A majority of Americans, however — confused by the stop-and-start rollout and wary of higher prices — say they disapprove. Between those two poles the policy that is now reshaping global trade risks becoming an overheated symbol of political discord, shouted about instead of discussed and debated. In an essay for Times Opinion, Ambassador Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, turns the volume down and lays out the administration’s theory of the case: why the previous system of global trade was unsustainable, how Trump’s tariffs will work and what their wider impact will be on the nation and the world.
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