Mr. Trump is imposing tariffs on goods that the United States cannot produce, like manganese from Gabon, which is needed for steel. He's put tariffs on nations that buy more goods from the US than they sell to us, like Australia, and on nations that have offered to remove all their tariffs on American goods, like Israel. Even after he paused some tariffs under pressure, the measures he has imposed have raised the average effective tax rate on imports to the United States to 27 percent, the highest since the early 20th century