How foreign leaders should respond to Trump’s tariff threats

How foreign leaders should respond to Trump’s tariff threats
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The Washington Post
By Dominic PinoWhether the Aug. 1 deadline for President Donald Trump’s tariffs is actually binding remains to be seen – remember, April 2 was supposed to be “Liberation Day” – but foreign leaders must be thinking about how they’ll respond.In many cases, they’ve already threatened to react in kind and are weighing new tariffs on everything from Pennsylvania steel to Kentucky bourbon.Foreign leaders are correct that Trump is in the wrong here. But for the same reason his tariffs are a misguided and self-...

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