He didn't stop it because he still really really really wants to do tariffs, but he did fold. If he wanted to have a good round of negotiations usually you say 'These are the tariffs we are thinking of implementing in x months' which gives other countries time that's needed for negotiations, but Trump didn't want negotiations he wanted complete submission, hell Vietnam was like 'sure we get rid of everything' and the Trump government still didn't agree because reasons, I think they said VAT.

If he didn't want to do it why talk about manufacturing and how all that money from tariffs means they won't have to pay taxes and so on. Like the guy thinks tariffs are great and fun and so beautiful he'd kiss them if he could.

Then US treasury yields kept rising which meant money was rapidly leaving and suddenly 'oh those tariffs yeah we'll stop them oh and during the trading day yes, not announce it normally, yeah this is urgent, wait no it isn't this was all planned.'

Like the various people then would give conflicting info because this was totally planned.