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Trump team explored simplified plan for reciprocal tariffs

Trump team explored simplified plan for reciprocal tariffs
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The Wall Street Journal
By Gavin Bade, Josh Dawsey and Vipal Monga Trump administration officials are roiled in debate over how to implement the president’s pledge to equalise US tariffs with those charged by other nations, with aides scrambling to meet the president’s self-imposed deadline of April 2 to debut a plan.Officials have recently weighed whether to simplify the complex task of devising new tariff rates for hundreds of US trading partners by instead sorting nations into one of three tariff tiers, according to people close to the policy discu...

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