Video | One year since Trump’s Liberation Day: the announcement that put the United States on edge
EL PAÍS visits New York’s manufacturing industry to speak with one of the sectors most affected by the Republican president’s tariffs
It has been a year since President Donald Trump announced the imposition of tariffs. In response to the deindustrialization of recent decades and the relocation of factories and companies to China and other countries, Trump said in 2025 that April 2, Liberation Day, would be remembered as “the day American industry was reborn” after “decades of plunder.”
Trump sought to put an end to decades of open-market policies and the reduction of trade barriers. But in an interconnected economy, with production processes spread across the world, can tariffs bring the country back to the golden age of postwar manufacturing? How do the new rates affect large and small industries that depend on importing raw materials and other supplies to develop products and sell them within the United States? EL PAÍS visits New York’s manufacturing industry to speak with one of the sectors most affected by the Republican president’s tariffs.