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Measuring Trump's 2018 Trade Protection: Five Takeaways
President Donald Trump’s 2018 tariff spree has resulted in 14.9 percent of US imports now being covered by some sort of special trade protection. Most of those affected imports were hit by Trump’s own actions. But some had already been subjected to tariffs imposed in previous administrations, with the Trump tariffs added on top. This fact complicates not only the challenge of measuring the impact of Trump’s actions so as to avoid double counting but also the implications for retaliation. In 2018, Trump applied five sets of tariffs under a vast array of rarely used US trade laws, including claims that tariffs ... (full story)