ST Picks: Will US trade tariffs do any good?

Donald Trump has vowed to slap 60 per cent tariffs across the board on Chinese products and at least 10 percent tariffs on the rest of the world. There is a two-panel cartoon on US trade policy that has recently gone viral. In the first panel, US President-elect Donald Trump is shown saying from a podium: “We call on the whole world to join our campaign to boycott China!” The second panel shows a factory in China with dozens of workers making T-shirts with “BOYCOTT CHINA” emblazoned on them.

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