Countries scooped up lobbyists with Trump connections as the administration embarked on an effort to upend global trade. They’re all still looking at higher tariffs.

President Donald Trump just enacted a new wave of tariffs on dozens of America’s trading partners, marking a substantial escalation in ongoing trade tensions that could constitute the biggest change to the global economy in nearly a century.

President Donald Trump on Thursday imposed once unthinkably high U.S. taxes on imports from dozens of countries, part of his campaign to turn one of the world's most open economies into a fortress bristling with barriers to trade.