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Boston Herald |
According to the president, the U.S. has been “looted, pillaged, raped, and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike” for decades, impacting American farmers, steel workers, manuf...
Reuters |
U.S. President Donald Trump has for weeks pegged April 2 as a "Liberation Day" to impose an array of new tariffs that could upend the global trade system, but has provided few details.
The Atlantic |
Given the sweeping nature of the new tariffs, Trump may have just essentially encouraged other countries to consider banding together to impose further tit-for-tat levies on the United States.

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