Trump has touted the $125 billion in revenue his already-existent import taxes have brought in, with hundreds of billions more pledged by a handful of nations in the form of investments. Yet it’s come at the cost of slower economic growth and the prospect of already stubborn inflation reheating.

U.S. trade partners around the world were reacting on Friday to President Donald Trump 's executive order that would introduce new tariffs on many of them in seven days, as the global economy and alliances face a fresh test from the president's trade agenda.