观点贸易解读

Trump’s tariff shambles is a helpful warning to the world
特朗普的关税混乱是有用的负面教材

No sensible government would think of emulating his trade policies as they have his other plans
没有一个明智的政府会考虑效仿他的贸易政策。
Countries’ reactions to Trump have generally involved trying to mitigate the damage as much as possible

So Donald Trump’s July 9 deadline to reimpose his so-called “reciprocal tariffs” turned out to be a deferral, though whether to August 1 or September 1 isn’t clear. Very possibly they get postponed indefinitely, despite the president’s all-caps insistence on Truth Social to the contrary, hence the sanguine response of the financial markets. As the New Yorker magazine’s greatest ever cartoon asked: “How about never? Is never good for you?”

唐纳德•特朗普原定于7月9日重新实施其所谓的“对等关税”,结果却被推迟了,尽管目前尚不清楚是延后至8月1日还是9月1日。很有可能,这些关税会被无限期搁置,尽管总统本人在其真相社交(Truth Social)平台上用全大写的英文