“The day of liberation has come,” declared U.S. President Donald Trump as he announced that new tariffs on imports from 183 countries would take effect at midnight on April 3. According to Trump, other countries have long profited from unrestricted access to the American market while simultaneously limiting access for American goods to their own. Now, he claimed, trillions upon trillions of dollars will flow into the United States, marking the beginning of a “golden age” for the American people.