Australia’s trade minister says Trump plan to double steel and aluminium tariffs to 50% ‘not the act of a friend’

Don Farrell says US president's latest tariffs announcement an act of economic self-harm' and he will continue to advocate for their removal

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Australia's trade minister, Don Farrell, has described Donald Trump's trade tariffs as unjustified and not the act of a friend", after the US president announced he would double import duties on steel and aluminium to 50%.

Trump told a steelworkers rally in Pittsburgh that raising the tariff would even further secure the steel industry in the United States. Nobody is going to get around that".

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