{"id":67110,"date":"2026-02-23T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/trumps-scramble-to-fix-his-crumbling-tariff-strategy-sows-global-chaos-and-confusion\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T03:00:00","slug":"trumps-scramble-to-fix-his-crumbling-tariff-strategy-sows-global-chaos-and-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/trumps-scramble-to-fix-his-crumbling-tariff-strategy-sows-global-chaos-and-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s scramble to fix his crumbling tariff strategy sows global chaos and confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Economies such as the UK, India, Japan and the EU raced to hammer out agreements, but the blanket rate has left them wondering where they stand<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica is WINNING again,\u201d Donald Trump declared last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/feb\/18\/us-japan-critical-minerals-agreement-oil-gas-projects-deal\">unveiling the first batch of Japanese-backed projects<\/a> under a mooted $550bn investment surge into the US as part of his trade pact with Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>After the US president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/04\/trump-tariffs-economy\">tore up the global economic order<\/a> in 2025, Japan was one among the countries scrambling to strike a deal. They pledged to dramatically increase investment in the US in exchange for lower US tariffs on Japanese exports.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/24\/trump-crumbling-tariff-strategy-global-chaos-confusion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economies such as the UK, India, Japan and the EU raced to hammer out agreements, but the blanket rate has left them wondering where they stand \u201cAmerica is WINNING again,\u201d Donald Trump declared last week, unveiling the first batch of Japanese-backed projects under a mooted $550bn investment surge into the US as part of his &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s scramble to fix his crumbling tariff strategy sows global chaos and confusion\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/trumps-scramble-to-fix-his-crumbling-tariff-strategy-sows-global-chaos-and-confusion\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s scramble to fix his crumbling tariff strategy sows global chaos and confusion\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}