Trump First-Term Economy Chiefs Refrain From Backing Tariff Plan

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  • ‘I just don’t know what we’re trying to achieve,’ Cohn says

Tractor trailers entering the US from Canada at the Pacific Highway Border Crossing in Blaine, Washington, on March 3.

Photographer: David Ryder/Bloomberg
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Two of President Donald Trump’s top economic chiefs from his first term refrained from backing his current approach of jacking up import duties on a range of trading partners to levels unseen in decades.