Tariff roulette: inside Trump’s chaotic trade negotiations
Donald Trump made two big public announcements on the day he launched a battery of new tariffs and upended the global trading order: one about a new ballroom at the White House and another about sports.
“We’re making a lot of deals, ” the president said on Thursday afternoon, turning his attention briefly to trade while flanked by an array of football and golf stars. “We just made a couple of others a little while ago — I don’t know if you’d be interested right now. I won’t even bother to tell you. ”
The comments seemed designed to taunt US trading partners such as Canada, Taiwan and India, which lobbied frantically for days to avoid more Trump tariffs — but were still bereft as the clock raced towards the US president’s August 1 deadline to strike new deals.
Длъжностните лица не можаха да кажат кои нови търговски покупко-продажби се отнася Тръмп и от този момент никой от тях не е разгласен.
Това беше различен образец за смесените сигнали от Вашингтон, отразявайки доста вътрешни...
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