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Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will use Malcolm Turnbull’s argument that Australia is one of the few nations to have a trade surplus with the US, in an attempt to dissuade Donald Trump from imposing tariffs of up to 20 per cent on imports from its Pacific ally. When Mr Turnbull was prime minister during Trump’s first term in power, he convinced the US president to drop plans to hit Australian steel and aluminium imports with 25 per cent tariffs as well as quotas by pointing to the trade surplus.
Mr Albanese indicated on Tuesday that his government would adopt the same approach. Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login Introducing your Newsfeed Follow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.
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