Recent developments indicate that no one can be sure what the final announcement will be and whether the message will change over time.

Trump's proposed trade protection measures, directed chiefly against China but also against Mexico and Canada, are being copied to an extent in Europe and are being considered by China itself.

Chart: The Economist For Mr Trump the measures represent an attempt to bring a long era of increasingly free global trade to a definitive end. Such openness has, he argued, allowed other countries ...

Canada vowed to respond with retaliatory tariffs if President Donald Trump slaps additional levies on Canadian goods as part ...