Trump’s tariffs rollercoaster is really about Republican unity
- Written by Lester Munson, Non-Resident Fellow, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
After announcing Liberation Day – stiff “retaliatory” tariffs on every country and penguin-inhabited island in the world – US President Donald Trump rescinded the vast majority of tariffs eight days later when stock and bond markets crashed.
He followed that with more exemptions for phones, computers and computer chips two...
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