trade war
economics
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beggar-thy-neighbor policy
- In beggar-thy-neighbor policy
…adopting such policies could trigger trade wars, a situation in which countries repeatedly retaliate against each other by raising tariffs on each other’s products. Trade wars tend to push the countries involved in them toward autarky, a system of economic self-sufficiency and limited trade, which could be detrimental for economic…
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Trump administration
- In Donald Trump: Foreign relations of Donald Trump
…the tariffs could ignite a trade war, Trump insisted in a tweet that “trade wars are good, and easy to win.” In April China imposed retaliatory tariffs on a variety of U.S. goods worth \$2.4 billion annually, approximately the dollar amount of Chinese aluminum and steel imports affected by the…
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