Trade
Reciprocal tariffs orderedLaunch the reciprocal tariff schedule with unequal rates
The trade reset has a universal baseline and a country-by-country appendix.
- Executive owner
- Donald J. Trump / Commerce / Treasury / U.S. Trade Representative
- Status
- Reciprocal tariffs ordered
- Due
- Baseline April 5; initial country rates April 9
- Paying for it
- Importers, manufacturers, retailers and customers
Entered in the archive 2026-10-16.
ACTIVITY
Record dateCustoms received the baseline and the country schedule.
LIBERATION DAY, beautiful Tariff Day!
Retailers requested prices that would survive the next announcement.
They've been charging us, now we do the Charging, suddenly everybody becomes an Economist..... where were all these Economists when we were getting charged??
The spreadsheet now needs both a country column and a revision date.
Ten is the Starting, very strong Starting, then we do the Country-ing.
PUBLIC RECORD
Executive Order 14257, signed April 2, 2025: Declared a trade-deficit-related national emergency and ordered a 10% additional tariff baseline from April 5, with higher country-specific rates initially scheduled from April 9 and specified exceptions. The rates were later modified by additional directives.