Trump tariffs: there may be silver linings in the trade war storm clouds

By Scott Mahadeo, Senior Lecturer in Macroeconomics, University of Portsmouth
Gabriella Legrenzi, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Keele University
Reinhold Heinlein, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of the West of England

US tariffs – both threatened and imposed – on trade partners including China, Canada, Mexico and the EU quickly set off waves of retaliatory measures. The latest commodities in the sights of president Donald Trump are steel and aluminium – with tariffs of 25% announced for all imports. But not only do these taxes disrupt well-established trade flows, they ignite concerns over the very future of globalisation.

Yet amid this uncertainty, it’s possible that there may be a silver…

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