Exporters Vie to Shape Trump’s Tariffs

“Ahead of President Trump’s next big trade move, his administration invited companies to weigh in on the economic barriers they faced abroad,” the New York Times reports.

“The list of complaints was both sprawling and specific. In hundreds of letters submitted to the administration in recent weeks, producers of uranium, shrimp, T-shirts and steel highlighted the unfair trade treatment they faced, in hopes of bending the president’s trade agenda in their favor. The complaints varied from Brazil’s high tariffs on ethanol and pet food, to India’s high levies on almonds and pecans, to Japan’s longstanding barriers to American potatoes.”