Sentences with phrase «sweeping trade tariffs»

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«But blanket tariffs that also sweep up fairly traded steel and aluminum, especially with trading partners like Canada and Mexico — they should be excluded.»

WASHINGTON — A day after President Trump took a swing at United States trading partners by threatening stiff and sweeping tariffs on steel and aluminum, they hit back.

• The president appeared eager on Friday to defend his decision to levy sweeping tariffs, calling trade wars «easy to win.»

Those leaders worry that Mr. Trump, by imposing stiff and sweeping tariffs on steel and aluminum, will set off a trade war with other countries.

Investment restrictions would be the second stage, following tariffs, in a sweeping trade measure that aims to penalize China for what the United States deems unfair trade practices.

The White House spent the weekend defending sweeping new steel and aluminum tariffs it plans to impose within days, arguing that they're vital to bringing down the US trade deficit.

Hours after both the United States and China detailed plans for sweeping tariffs, trade groups warned that a tit - for - tat trade war between the world's two largest economies will have no winners.

A group of 46 US industry and trade associations made a final plea to Trump in a letter earlier this week, arguing that «the imposition of sweeping tariffs would trigger a chain reaction of negative consequences for the US economy.»

Cohn has been fiercely battling the president and an influential contingent of anti-free trade advisers in the White House over Trump's plan to impose sweeping tariffs on steel and aluminum import, warning that it could spark a major trade war.

A day after Trump took a swing at United States trading partners by threatening stiff and sweeping tariffs on steel and aluminum, they hit back.

That is, it called on the court to conclude that because some Fathers and framers were against many tariffs much of the time, they were hostile enough to regulation that might burden interprovincial trade to implant in constitutional text a sweeping restriction on governments» legislative power that somehow didn't come up in the Confederation debates or in any other pieces of Confederation - era evidence.