US President Donald Trump shakes hand with China's President Xi Jinping at the end of a press conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 9, 2017.
Former US President Donald Trump and China's leader Xi Jinping on November 9, 2017.
  • Trump has plans for at least a 10% universal tariff on US imports, he told Time Magazine.
  • He argues that such a levy wouldn't lead to increased inflation.
  • But research from the bipartisan Tax Foundation suggests otherwise, and says Trump's 2018 trade war was also economically damaging.

Former President Donald Trump has made it no secret that he plans to build a wall of tariffs around the US, with higher rates applied to those he sees standing in the way of American trade.