Could there be some far-sighted political justification for President Donald Trump’s proposed steel and aluminium tariffs? Could it be that whatever immediate economic harm the measures will do, they could serve to boost the credibility of the overall trading system and Americans’ faith in it? The obvious answer, “No”, is the correct one. But it may be worth looking at how similar actions have been used in less-than-catastrophic ways in the past.
唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)總統擬議的對鋼材和鋁征收關稅的舉措,可能有一些富有遠見的政治理由嗎?有沒有可能,無論這些舉措導致了怎樣的短期經濟損失,它們可能提高整個貿易體系的可信度,并增強美國人對這個體系的信心?顯而易見的答案是“不”,這也是正確答案。但是,我們不妨回顧一下以往那些未造成災難性影響的類似舉措。
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