A worker checks on rolls of aluminum at a factory in Zouping county in east China’s Shandong province.
Photo: Chinatopix via AP
Photo: Chinatopix via AP
Professor William F. Shughart II, of Utah State University, and research fellow Kristian Fors, of the Center for Growth and Opportunity, outline why President Trump’s steel tariffs will cause more economic damage than good. While the tariffs may enable more people to work in the U.S. steel industry, larger losses will be incurred in other areas of the economy, and the tariffs will, at best, delay the inevitable market forces that prompted steel producers to move overseas initially
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