It's U.S. states that will bear the brunt of Trump's tariffs
BY RACHEL VAN DONGEN
with Bastien Inzaurralde
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Beer. Cheese. Newsprint. Those are just a few of the many U.S. industries that could be significantly affected by President Trump’s burgeoning trade war – especially his slapping of tariffs on aluminum and steel imports, including on NAFTA partners Mexico and Canada. The president has also imposed the punitive levies on the European Union.
But the Trump tariffs won’t necessarily be so acutely felt on the national level. It’s the states – and some swing ones, at that – that could bear the brunt of what the president says is at long last an aggressive strategy to protect the American worker and economy.
Take the latest spat over the dairy industry following Trump’s meeting with the leaders of industrialized nations at the G-7 last weekend. Trump issued several outraged tweets aimed at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his country’s 270 percent tariffs on dairy imports once imports meet a certain yearly quota.
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