From: The Times of Israel and 9News April 2, 2025
Tariff on Israeli goods: — not the act of a friend!

Trump unveils sweeping global tariffs, including 17% US import duty on Israeli goods.
The tariffs include a 17 percent duty on Israeli products imported to the United States.

Israel sought to prevent the move with the directive Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich signed Tuesday to immediately scrap all remaining tariffs on American imports — Oops! Pre-emptying didn't work...

US President Donald Trump has unveiled a raft of punishing tariffs targeting countries around the world including some of its closest trading partners, in a move that risks sparking a ruinous trade war.

according to Investor's Business Daily: President Donald Trump failed to accomplish much with the China-focused trade war in his first term.

Trump's Liberation Day “make America wealthy again.” Trump says, adding that it would “forever be remembered as the day:
1. American industry was reborn,
2. the day America’s destiny was reclaimed.”

This tariffs 'blitzkrieg on globalization'; Trump's new economic fortress America, by its design:
1. winds off its principal economic and strategic partner, Europe
2. leaving China as the sole promoter of "free and open international trade,"

The announcement represents the effective death knell of NATO
"If NATO America's principal strategic alliance, is expendable, what credible rationale could underpin US fidelity."

1. Business leaders warn of fallout from Trump’s trade war;
2. US stocks plummet, in after-hours trading as experts warn Americans could see higher costs;
3. Dow futures have fallen more than 1,000 points in hours after Trump’s tariff announcement;
4. Analysts warn Trump's tariffs could tip US and global economy into recession;