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How to lose friends and impoverish people: Trump’s trade strategy

US President Donald Trump is pursuing trade conflicts that will perversely make US ‘rivals’ more competitive in future

President Donald Trump with US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer
President Donald Trump with US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer Photo: Getty Images

US President Donald Trump’s “trade war” with China has been slogging along for more than a year now, and could escalate further if current talks do not lead to a deal.

But in the meantime, the Trump administration has also accused two longstanding US partners, Turkey and India, of benefiting unfairly from the US Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) for developing countries.

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