On February 7, Trump signed an executive order imposing a 25% tariff on any country that "does business" with Iran. The order targets imports from all of Iran's trading partners, including China, Russia, India, Turkey, the UAE, and Brazil. The White House has not yet clearly defined what it means to "do business" with Iran or how the policy will be implemented.
[Witty] Trump issued an executive order imposing a 25% tariff on trade partners of Iran, with ambiguous rules and unclear implementation. Essentially, it uses tariffs as a "global collective punishment" tool, replicating the previous extreme pressure tactics but in a more crude manner. History has already shown that unilateral tariffs only backfire, disrupt global supply chains, harm the interests of multiple countries such as China, India, Russia, and Turkey, and violate WTO rules and market common sense. This bullying logic of "I draw the line, the world must comply" neither crushes Iran nor forces countries to take sides, but instead makes global trade more fragmented and markets more turbulent. The U.S. hegemony forcibly binds international trade, and is destined to face countermeasures from multiple parties, which is unsustainable and lacks public support!
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