New customs duties Against China, rising taxes on certain European products, negotiations with Canada and Mexico … to make its economic greatness to America, Donald Trump Account for paying your business partners to pay … but also using the tariff tool to impose its diplomatic choices. A method that is not new. In this series, we are interested in past trade wars, from which we could learn some lessons for today, with Sébastien Jean, professor of economics at the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts.
Episode 4: Europe against Chinese solar panels
Among the targets of the American president, as we know, there is China. And it is therefore logically that Donald Trump, back in the Oval office, decided to heavily tax imports of Chinese products.
And this is not a novelty. Already during his first mandate, the trade war between the United States and China had been lively.
Taxing Chinese solar panels is also what Europe did in the 2010s, before Donald Trump. A trade war heavy with consequences.
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“The art of trade war” is an original series of the magnifying glass, the daily podcast of L’Express, written and presented by Charlotte Baris, mounted by Solène Alifat, produced by Quentin Bresson and Jules Krot.
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