Trade war? What you need to know about US steel tariffs

The world’s closer to a full-scale trade war than at any time since the 1930s, with the US, China and the EU all involved Trump imposes tariffs – live updatesA key theme of Donald Trump’s election campaign in 2016 was that American jobs were being lost as a result of unfair global trade. Most commentators thought it was bluster when Trump threatened to impose swingeing tariffs on Chinese goods and to pull the US out of trade deals. Continue reading...