Donald Trump knows exactly what he’s doing with tariffs.
Everyone else is baffled: Why did the president announce heavy taxes on imports from Canada as well as Mexico and China?
America has an obvious interest in economic decoupling from China, a great-power rival.
And by first imposing and then suspending tariffs on Mexican imports, Trump was able to bring Mexico’s government to the negotiating table on his terms.
That’s won immediate results in the fight against illegal immigration and traffic in fentanyl and other drugs into our country:
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is now sending 10,000 troops to secure Mexico’s side of the border.
She has one month to get the job done and strike a bigger, long-term deal with the United States—or tariffs snap back in March.
Then there are those Yukon cartels and the Canadian Communist Party, and ……
