Protesters hold up an effigy of U.S. President Donald Trump in response to Trump’s announcement of 50% tariffs on Brazilian goods, in Sao Paulo, Thursday, July 10. Andre Penner/AP hide caption toggle caption Andre Penner/AP President Trump’s threat to impose higher tariffs on Brazil is “grotesquely illegal,” says Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman. Brazil was among the countries Trump threatened …
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Once again, President Donald Trump is delaying his own tariffs. In April, after introducing jaw-droppingly high, possibly chatbot-calculated “reciprocal” tariffs that he planned to impose on all the United States’ major trading partners, Trump agreed to back off from …
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