For his own good, Trump should heed Sen. Grassley’s advice on tariffs

Published April 29, 2019 7:08pm ET



President Trump wanted a new NAFTA deal. Last year he got the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, but it still hasn’t been approved by Congress. And if Trump wants the deal to be more than a piece of paper with signatures on it, he’d do well to take the advice of Sen. Chuck Grassley R-Iowa.

On Sunday, Grassley penned an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal explaining that for lawmakers, the hang-up with the USMCA isn’t so much the bill itself but Trump’s insistence on keeping steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada and Mexico in place. As Grassley put it:

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