For decades, the United States and the Caribbean have shared a bond rooted in history, culture, and mutual respect. Ours is a relationship built on trust, kinship, and economic interdependence. Families stretch across Miami, New York, Kingston, and Bridgetown. Trade flows both ways, bolstering businesses and livelihoods on both sides. Yet today, that longstanding friendship is being tested by a wave of new U.S. tariffs that threaten to destabilize already fragile Caribbean economies.