Lack of support for tariffs come as Trump paused planned levies on Mexico and Canada for a month. Voters remain unsupportive of the Trump administration’s proposals to impose tariffs on U.S. trading partners Canada, Mexico, and China, though there’s also considerable confusion throughout the country about how tariffs even work. Overall, Americans seem unenthused about Trump’s threatened trade wars.
Gauging popular support for Trump’s policies is further complicated by the fact that Americans don’t really seem to know what a tariff is. Even if Americans don’t quite understand tariffs, they don’t seem to want them. Trump himself seems to be admitting that tariffs might cause some economic chaos, despite campaigning aggressively against inflation during the Biden years. As The Independent has reported, economists have consistently predicted large-scale tariffs of the kind Trump is proposing will raise consumer prices, fuel inflation and harm the U.S. economy.
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