In the steel and aluminum proclamations, Trump refers to the continued increase in imports and decrease in domestic production as threatening to impair U.S. national security to reinstate duties on global imports under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (“section 232”).

President Donald Trump on Monday imposed a 25% tariff on all steel and aluminum imports into the United States with no exceptions or exemptions.

President Trump plans to impose fresh tariffs on all aluminum and steel imports, seeking to curb China’s growing dominance in global trade. These six charts show the tariffs’ potential economic