Tariff timeline: How Trump turned global trade into an economic battlefield

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President Donald Trump’s dizzying tariffs rhetoric has caught the economy flatfooted.

While Trump has long lauded trade duties as a solution to a host of economic woes, it has been the tariffs’ erratic rollout and shifting rationales that have alarmed investors.

Trump has threatened or imposed tariffs targeting Mexico, Canada, China, Europe and the rest of the world.