Even backers of Trump's economic policies pan tariffs

Reuters interviewed more than two dozen financial experts, including Professor of Economics Marjorie Baldwin, about the President's controversial trade policies. 

President Trump is enthusiastic about the possibility of a trade war over his proposed steel and aluminum tariff increases, but economic specialists are concerned, as several of them expressed to reporter Ann Saphir.

In this article on Reuters March 14, 2018, a W. P. Carey economics professor shares her view:

A fairer appraisal is to view them as bargaining ploys rather than serious long-run changes in trade policy.&nbsp

— Professor of Economics Marjorie Baldwin.