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A New Trade War?

What US tariffs on steel and Chinese goods means for global trade.

What US tariffs on steel and Chinese goods means for global trade. We hear from Laura Baughman, president of the Trade Partnership, a Washington-based consultancy that provides economic analysis on the impact of trade policies. Adrienne Murray reports from Logan County in West Virginia, where the coal industry is hoping for a revival under Donald Trump, and Manuela Saragosa speaks to Marc-William Palen, a trade historian at the University of Exeter in the UK, about the history of trade wars.

(Steel production in Indiana, United States. Credit: Getty Images)

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Mon 26 Mar 2018 07:32GMT

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