Trade war? What you need to know about US steel tariffs
by Larry Elliott and Richard Partington from on (#3RC85)
The world's closer to a full-scale trade war than at any time since the 1930s, with the US, China and the EU all involved
A key theme of Donald Trump's election campaign in 2016 was that American jobs were being lost as a result of unfair global trade. Most commentators thought it was bluster when Trump threatened to impose swingeing tariffs on Chinese goods and to pull the US out of trade deals.
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