John Coates on Nostr: "Trump plans to go much further on tariffs than he did in office, proposing levies of ...
"Trump plans to go much further on tariffs than he did in office, proposing levies of 10 to 20 per cent on all imports and 60 per cent on those from China."
-Financial Times
You may think international trade causes harms, and it does, but autarky (no trade) would cause more harm. It's also part of how we got WWII.
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