The looming global trade war
America is setting dangerous new precedents as it tries to curb imports
PRESIDENT Donald Trump does not follow through on everything he says or tweets. Sometimes he blithely ignores past statements, sometimes he seamlessly reverses himself. For a while, hopes that tariffs of 25% on steel imports, and 10% on aluminium, which the president announced on March 1st, might not actually come to pass hung by that thread.
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