The Trump Administration’s Reciprocal Duties

Authors

Edward J. Balistreri, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

ORCID IDs

Balistreri https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6740-0066

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2025

Citation

World Trade Review (2025) 24(special issue 4): 438–445

doi: 10.1017/S1474745625101043

Comments

Open access

License: CC BY 4.0

Abstract

This article considers the reciprocal duties proposed by the US administration, 2 April 2025. These are large import tariffs that will significantly disrupt the world trading system. Rather than considering the economic impacts of these tariffs, as others have and are doing, this article documents the rationale used to justify these destructive tariffs and their calculation. Using descriptive examples, the proposed duties are shown to be unfounded as reciprocal and generally ill advised.