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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal. This is Potomac Watch.

President Trump signs a memo promising reciprocal tariffs on U.S. trading partners,

but with no immediate action, markets sense a reprieve.

Meantime, Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency or Doge effort continues forward under new criticisms of a

constitutional crisis. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my

colleagues, columnist Alicia Finley, and Kim Strassel. After holding off recently on threatened

25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico. President Trump is now also delaying

his long-promised reciprocal tariffs. The memo that he signed this week says this. The United States

has one of the most open economies and has among the lowest average weighted tariff rates in the

world. The United States imposes fewer barriers to imports than other major world economies.

But it says for many years, the United States has been treated unfairly by trading partners, both friend and foe.

But the key point of this memorandum is it directs the Commerce Secretary and the United States Trade Representative

to investigate harm to the United States from non-recipical trading arrangements, and then to submit a report detailing proposed remedies.

Here's Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday, explaining why reciprocal tariffs may not help lower prices, at least in the short term.

Their price is going to go up short-term longterm... Not necessarily. I mean, not necessarily, but I'll tell you what will go up is jobs.

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