Guardian US business editor Dominic Rushe explains why the president-elect wants to impose tariffs on imports, and the risks it poses to the economy. Senior China correspondent Amy Hawkins talks through the potential of a wider retaliatory trade war with China.
“Tariff,” Donald Trump has said many times, “is the most beautiful word in the dictionary.”
While there are many political positions that the incoming president seems to have adopted later on in life, as the Guardian US business editor, Dominic Rushe, explains, his commitment to tariffs is long and deeply held.
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