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U.S.: Advisers and Allies Steel Themselves for Trump's Tariffs

Mar 7, 2018 | 22:01 GMT

(Stratfor)

The steel and aluminum tariffs promised by U.S. President Donald Trump aren't in place, but reactions to them are already rolling out. On March 6, news broke that Gary Cohn, director of the National Economic Council, would be resigning for a variety of reasons, with the proposed tariffs among them. On top of that, European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom publicly outlined a three-pronged strategy on how the European Union would respond to the U.S. tariffs on March 7. The two responses add to the pile of negative reactions to Trump's proposed 25 percent tariff on steel and 10 percent tariff on aluminum....

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