Finally, women’s negligées from Ohio and Kentucky, a fan favorite from the Commission’s first proposal, made the final cut; so did men’s undergarments, although they are mostly found in blue states.
Zooming back
The trade war unleashed by Trump comes with a hefty price for Washington, as Canada and China have responded to the U.S. president’s deluge of duties with their own counter tariffs.
Overall, retaliatory measures imposed by China, Canada and the EU will hit nearly $90 billion of American exports.
Beijing has mainly targeted U.S. produce, slapping a 15 percent duty on commodities like chicken, wheat and corn along with 10 percent on soybeans, meat, fruit and other farm exports. Canada, meanwhile, has imposed two sets of tariffs — 25 percent on a range of agrifood products, and another 25 percent on steel and aluminum products.
For its part, Brussels has experimented with a carrot-and-stick approach to signal it won’t bow to Trump’s demands while leaving the door open to negotiations. On Monday the bloc offered a “zero-for-zero” tariff scheme on industrial goods covering cars, drugs, chemicals, plastics and machinery among other things.
Trump, however, said the offer fell short and urged EU countries to buy $350 billion worth of American energy products to make the trade deficit “disappear … in one week.”
As a last resort, the bloc could wield its “trade bazooka” to hit U.S. services, which would take the trade war to a whole new level — something not all EU countries are ready to do just yet.