Professor Niven Winchester

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New modelling reveals full impact of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs

We now have a clearer picture of Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs and how they will affect other trading nations. The “reciprocal” tariffs are designed to impose charges on other countries equivalent to half the costs they supposedly inflict on US exporters through tariffs, currency manipulation and non-tariff barriers levied on US goods.