White House Defends Tariffs That Some Nations May Still Escape
- Sanders says exemptions could be for select cases and nations
- The objective is not to spark a trade war, Mnuchin says
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President Donald Trump’s economic advisers defended U.S. plans to impose steel tariffs while leaving the door open for exempting some countries and downplaying the fallout of a possible trade war.
The president plans to sign orders for the new steel and aluminum tariffs at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, a White House official said.