US President Donald Trump doubled tariffs on metal to 50 per cent this week. He’s additionally permitting Japan’s Nippon to purchase the US Metal Company. The strikes are supposed to carry again manufacturing to America’s metal trade. However will they? FT senior commerce author Alan Beattie and Zehra Munir, the FT’s industrial reporter, talk about whether or not Trump could make good on a preferred promise.
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