Letter
US president's tariff threats
Sourabh Gupta’s article hits the nail on the head. Going further is this from The Guardian of 9 July: “The true test will come if the crushing sanctions tabled months ago by the Republican senator Lindsey Graham are finally given the presidential go-ahead. The measures would impose a 500% tariff on imports from any country that purchases Russian uranium, gas or oil, with India and China the worst affected.”
Trump says his policy includes products onsold through a less tariffed country. Well, some of our petrol comes from Russia after being refined in Singapore, so that is a threat to us. This is also hard on the heels of the Quad meeting which included India, so does one end of the Republican party know what the other end is doing? Or is this quantum politics where two opposing states of policy can exist simultaneously?
— Geoff Taylor from Borlu