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Analysis: Trump and Trade

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Protectionism in the USA

16/07/2018

Trump and Trade

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As a US trade war looms, how far will President Trump go to put 'America First'?

As Donald Trump seems poised for a trade war on two fronts - with China and Europe - Ed Stourton asks how far will the American president go to put 'America First'.

In 2016, during the American presidential election campaign, Edward Stourton travelled to the rustbelt of the United States to report on the new political power of Protectionism. 
Now, as Donald Trump seems poised for a trade war on two fronts - with China and Europe - he asks how far the American president will go to put "America First".

Producer Smita Patel 
Editor Hugh Levinson.

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