Before anyone could take the first shot in President Trump’s threatened trade war, he and Chinese President Xi Jinping both found a way to save face. The steel tariffs that Trump had earlier announced have been put on hold pending further talks.
The tariffs are designed to protect American steel producers from market competition, so that the U.S. will emerge once again as a steelmaking power. Or so goes the theory goes.
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