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Trump is blocking appointments of WTO judges. Here’s why

Jun 1, 2018
More of the tariff skirmishes between the U.S. and China, the EU, Mexico, Canada, and other countries are likely to end up at the World Trade Organization. That’s because the WTO is supposed to help mediate trade battles. The problem is, President Donald Trump has been working to undermine the WTO’s authority by vetoing all […]

Companies say they shouldn't pay tariffs on products no one makes domestically

May 4, 2018
"I don't think people really understand that the U.S. never ... reinvested in its steel-making ability," one executive says.
A worker stacks newly cast steel slabs at the NLMK Indiana mill in March in Portage, Indiana.
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The trade war is over (I lost)

Apr 9, 2018
The president says they're easy, but FiveThirtyEight's simulator gave me a different experience.
A worker standing at a dock of a port in Shanghai on March 22, 2018.
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