I don’t think he really cares. My hypothesis is that Trump is just in love with the concept of deals, so he made these tariffs in an attempt to force other countries to make deals with him.
Realistically the actual levying of import taxes is far enough removed from the policymakers at the top that they’ll just follow the laws and court rulings as written until they receive orders otherwise. So unless someone in the Trump administration personally gets involved in the day to day, they’ll stick to whatever the written policies are
This assumes that Mr. Trump will honour the deal, which is a pretty big assumption.
I don’t think he really cares. My hypothesis is that Trump is just in love with the concept of deals, so he made these tariffs in an attempt to force other countries to make deals with him.
Realistically the actual levying of import taxes is far enough removed from the policymakers at the top that they’ll just follow the laws and court rulings as written until they receive orders otherwise. So unless someone in the Trump administration personally gets involved in the day to day, they’ll stick to whatever the written policies are