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Jean-Pierre Nadeau's avatar

tariff doctrine is the updated version of the gunboat diplomacy

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David McGarry's avatar

These tariffs have been imposed on countries that charged even higher tariffs for American products. Trump is simply implementing a long-overdue correction to international trade with America. The biggest beneficiary to date is the UK, which is subject to a 10% tariff.

Hopefully, those countries that don't want these tariffs on their exports will reduce their own trade barriers in a process that leads to a more open - and honest - system of global trade. Trump is the first person in a position of power to try and change a broken and discredited system.

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