President Trump on Thursday unveiled a battery of new tariffs targeting exports from dozens of U.S. trading partners, forging ahead with a potentially disruptive plan to escalate his global trade war.
President Trump on Thursday unveiled a battery of new tariffs targeting exports from dozens of U.S. trading partners, forging ahead with a potentially disruptive plan to escalate his global trade war.
That would require a process of analysis a lot more sophisticated than the imbecilic back-of-an-envelope calculation that was loosely based on bilateral trade flows. And even then, selective quotas and a trade adjudication process would be more likely to succeed.