The nations that President Donald Trump is expected to target with new tariffs next week share one thing in common: They all sell more goods to the United States than they buy from it.

But the similarities stop there. The nations that the president could hit with new “reciprocal” tariffs on April 2— which account for nearly 90 percent of the $3.3 trillion in merchandise that the United States imported last year — range from tiny Switzerland to China, the world’s second-largest economy...The goal, as set out in a presidential memorandum Trump signed on Inauguration Day, is to eliminate “destructive trade deficits.”