Donald Trump faced a backlash from business groups and some in his own Republican party after kicking off a trade war by imposing steep tariffs on the US’s three largest trading partners.
Trade associations representing consumer goods, oil, groceries and automakers lined up to warn that Trump’s new tariffs — which included 10 per cent tariffs on imports from China, 25 per cent on all imports from Mexico and Canada, with a lower 10 per cent levy for Canadian energy — would push up…
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