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

Any doubt that the president was "all talk" about tariffs has been put to rest amid a flurry of tariffs, threats, and retaliatory duties going into effect in a matter of weeks.
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President Donald Trump's dizzying tariffs rhetoric has caught the economy flat footed.

While Trump has long lauded trade duties as a solution to a host of economic woes, it has been the tariffs' erratic roll-out — and shifting rationales — that has alarmed investors.

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

Below is a play-by-play of how Trump's trade rhetoric — and responding measures by the nations he has targeted — has played out.