I suspect that Trump wants the tariffs to be permanent, but he’s walking a fine line because nobody else in Washington agrees with him.
He has to go through the motions of negotiating long enough for the benefits of the tariffs to become obvious.
“I suspect that Trump wants the tariffs to be permanent, but he’s walking a fine line because nobody else in Washington agrees with him.”
It must frustrate him to be the only person in D.C. with a functioning brain.
No, that is not the facts.
Trump’s stated goal is to increase American export sales by encouraging trading pardners to reduce their tariffs to allow import of more American products.
Tariffs are taxes. Trump knows that so he does not favor tariffs for the purpose of taxing.
Trump favors and is encouraging export sales by making trading pardners offers they dare not refuse. He is a nationalist on an international playing field