Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

What Trump could learn from the British and Irish trade war of the 1930s

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par Richard Carr, Lecturer in History and Politics, Anglia Ruskin University

During his election campaign, US president Donald Trump claimed the word tariff is “more beautiful than ‘love’”. Now in office, Trump has targeted his closest neighbours and trading partners with those self same policies. He initially concentrated his levies on Canada, China and Mexico – two of which share land borders with the US – before implementing blanket tariffs on all steel…

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