When President Donald Trump learned Colombia had pushed back on US deportations, his threat of a massive trade war laid out the stakes: cooperate, or else. - 'Leverage' - After a rollercoaster Sunday with dueling tariff threats between Washington and Bogota,

President Trump said in the "very near future" he will impose tariffs on steel, aluminum, copper, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals and other imports.

The US’s economic partners are racing to sustain trade volumes in a Donald Trump era by closing new bilateral deals and rerouting supply chains to cope with increased US protectionism. Policymakers and trade experts say countries are turning to a tactic deployed during the US president’s first term in office,