The United States drastically cut its reliance on tariffs as a primary form of federal revenue over a century ago. Goods coming into U.S. ports, including the Port of Los Angeles, as seen here, will get more expensive under the Trump tariff proposal.

Trump proposed a 10% tariff on all U.S. imports and a 60% levy on Chinese-made products, which if enacted would affect the entire economy by pushing consumer prices higher and stoking retaliatory levies on American exports. Trump also threatened to impose a 25% tariff on all imports from Mexico.

This isn’t speculation or theory, it’s just the way tariffs work — and we have the last six years of global trade to prove it. In 2018, during his first term, Trump imposed tariffs of 30% to 50% on goods imported from China, forcing Beijing to retaliate with its own tariffs against US goods like aluminum, ai