U.S. President Donald Trump made good on his promise to implement a broad and brutal tariff program, allowing new levies on almost all goods entering the United States to go into effect as scheduled on Wednesday, with Japan being one of the hardest hit.
Hopes for an 11th-hour backpedal by a president known for such last-minute maneuvers faded as the White House dug in the day before and offered no hint of a reconsideration.
“The era of American economic surrender is over,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said of the tariffs at a Tuesday news briefing. “It’s ‘America First’ all the way.”
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