Is the China-US fentanyl pipeline really responsible for the US opioid crisis?
Donald Trump’s additional 10% tax on Chinese imports said to be response to China’s failure to curb its flow into US
Donald Trump has said that his favourite word is tariff, which he describes as “the most beautiful word in the dictionary”.
So his announcement on Monday that he would be imposing 25% tariffs on imports from China, Mexico and Canada was perhaps to be expected. He also separately outlined “an additional 10% tariff” on imports from China, which – even if enacted – would be well below the 60% rate that Trump had threatened on the campaign trail.
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