Until a week or two ago, President Donald Trump’s conflicting statements left open a strong possibility that the leader of the free world was threatening sweeping tariffs as a cudgel to extract better terms from exporters,

Long-threatened tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump have plunged the country into a trade war abroad — all while on-again, off-again new levies continue to escalate uncertainty

Ever since President Trump began commenting on politics, even dating back to interviews from 1987, he has voiced concern about other countries taking advantage of the U.S., asking why those nations could benefit from U.