
U.S. President Donald Trump
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The story so far: U.S. President Donald Trump has sought to deliver, in the early days of his second term in office, on his most vociferous campaign promise — to slap a range of the U.S.’s trading partners with significant tariffs in a bid to tamp down on undocumented migrant and illicit drug inflows, while presumably incentivising companies to favour creating jobs on U.S. soil. His administration’s initial action in the space, to use executive orders to impose a 25% tariff on Canadian and Mexican goods and a 10% tax on energy…