'Trade wars are good'? 3 past conflicts tell a very different story
- Written by Marc-William Palen, Lecturer in History, University of Exeter
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President Donald Trump renewed fears of a global trade war after he vowed to slap steep tariffs on foreign aluminum and steel.
The tariffs haven’t even been formally proposed, yet other countries are already threatening countermeasures. The...
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