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Cosmopolitics by Elise Labott

Tariffs are just the beginning

The Trump administration wants to rewrite the global economic system

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Elise Labott
Apr 02, 2025
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Today marks what President Trump and his economic nationalists are privately calling "Liberation Day" – the moment America throws off the shackles of a global trading system they believe has disadvantaged American workers for de…

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