Influential US economist Jeffrey Sachs wants Trump to give relief to families hit by tariffs
The tariffs were “illegal, unfair and detrimental to the American people,” and it was not the foreign countries but the American families, who were paying for the tariffs, Sachs, a professor of economics and director of the Centre for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, wrote in an opinion piece published on the US-based news website Common Dreams.
Trump shaves tariffs off beef, coffee and other foods as rising inflation shakes up US foreign trade policies
The White House, in a factsheet on the order, said it came on the heels of “significant progress the president has made in securing more reciprocal terms for our bilateral trade relationships.”
