Trump Rarely Follows Through on Tariff Threats

“In less than three weeks, President Donald Trump has issued four sweeping tariff threats that, in normal times, would rattle investors, unnerve CEOs and send economists rushing to revise their growth forecasts for the targeted countries,” the South China Morning Post reports.

“Instead, financial markets and C-suite executives have mostly shrugged off Trump’s latest warnings involving Iran’s trading partners, Greenland’s supporters, Canada and South Korea, seeing them as merely words intended to gain leverage or change behavior – nothing he’d actually carry out…”

“In reality, he only follows through about a quarter of the time.”