Ledger · 2024 campaign · № 177
A permanent reciprocal tariff law (the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act)
Broken“[paraphrase] An eye for an eye, a tariff for a tariff — whatever they charge us, we charge them.”
- Promised
- , Agenda 47 policy platform
- Re-promised
- 10 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Trade & tariffs
- Era
- 2024 campaign
What happened
Congress never passed the Reciprocal Trade Act. Trump instead imposed 'reciprocal' rates by emergency decree on April 2, 2025, and the Supreme Court voided that authority on Feb. 20, 2026. PolitiFact rated the promise Stalled; as of September 2026 the reciprocal schedule exists only in improvised, litigated form under substitute statutes.