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Supporting Trump Tariffs, One Exemption at a Time
A steelmaker's plea for mercy shows the trade war is still stinging.
President Donald Trump signs off on steel tariffs that seemed to some steelmakers like a good idea at the time.
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Robert Wetherbee, CEO of steelmaker Allegheny Technologies Inc., has penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal sporting a headline for the ages:
It’s tough to know if this is merely a straight summation of the piece (which it is) or the pointed effort of some wag on the copy desk. Either way, as pithy distillations of the tricky trade-offs of tariffs go, it is tough to beat.