Tariffs have traditionally been an vital software of business coverage. They had been used within the final century by east Asian nations to advertise toddler industries, and are getting used at the moment by the EU to assist spur the power transition. However do Donald Trump’s threats to impose a 25% across-the-board tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico, or his precise 10% tax rise on all imports from China, have any sort of thought-out coverage rationale behind them? And will different nations reply in form?
To seek out out, the FT’s European economics commentator Martin Sandbu speaks to Dani Rodrik, professor of worldwide political economic system at Harvard. Rodrik is likely one of the world’s most acclaimed specialists on industrial coverage, and somebody Martin first bought to know as a PhD pupil within the Nineties.
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