There is no such thing, America’s 18th-century founding father Benjamin Franklin said, as ‘a good war or a bad peace’. The current President is about to test that dictum to the limit.

So tariffs may be coming. Their scope just remains unclear. And Thursday’s announcement was a lot of bark with little bite – at least for now.

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