US government is pinning its tariff hopes on some unlikely to be realised assumptions

Created
Mon, 07/04/2025 - 17:57
Updated
Mon, 07/04/2025 - 17:57
Last week, the US President honoured his election promise, indeed his long-held commitment, to increase tariffs on imported goods and services to the US. The formula they came up to differentiate between countries was bizarre but I don’t intend commenting on that here, except to say, the imposition of tariffs on the – Heard Island…