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.

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    23 hours ago

    What if the tariffs do balance that a bit better?

    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.