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Tariffs and the Trade Balance: How Trump Validated His Critics

Benn Steil and Benjamin Della Rocca | Council on Foreign Relations | 04/21/2021

Before Donald Trump became president in 2017, Americans paid tariffs on just two percent of their imported goods. The average tariff rate was 1.7 percent. In 2018, however, Trump launched…

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