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President Donald Trump claimed vindication of his strategy to use tariffs to wring concessions from foreign governments as Canada and Mexico reached agreements to pause such duties for a month.
“Well, how do you like them apples?” Vice President JD Vance asked on Monday.
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“A tariff that makes no sense from one perspective might be entirely wise and effective from another,” American Compass’s Oren Cass contended on an X thread. “Many otherwise serious economists have criticized Trump’s China tariffs for failing to reshore manufacturing. But they were decoupling tariffs, and they achieved that.”
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