President Donald Trump’s expansive new tariff regime reverses a decades-long global trend of lower trade barriers, will likely raise prices for U.S. consumers, and threatens to sharply slow the economy this year. The White House is gambling that other countries will also suffer enough pain that they will open up their economies to more American exports. Or, the White House hopes, more companies will bring more production to the United States. But a key question will be how Americans react to the tariffs. If voters could turn against the duties, that could make it harder to keep them  for the length of time needed to encourage companies to return to the U.S.

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Containers are stored at a container terminal in Duisburg, Germany, the day after President Trump announced new tariffs for the EU and the rest of the world, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)