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Grattan on Friday: Trying too hard for a special tariff deal with Trump could be the wrong way to go

By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Australia should be careful of going down the route of supplicant in the effort to remove the new Trump tariffs.

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