With his tariff plan in tatters, Trump vows ‘to do absolutely terrible things to foreign countries … in a much more powerful and obnoxious way’

Foreign trade partners of the U.S. are losing their patience with the White House. Countries that thought they had low-level tariff deals of 10% or so are now potentially looking at 15%. And countries that fought the White House and got higher tariffs may now see only a 10% tax level. “The perversity of what happened at the weekend was that those who got good deals, the allies, have been most disadvantaged,” Andy Haldane, the former central bank economist and current president of the British Chambers of Com ...