Dyer: Trump’s trade delusion

Dyer: Trump’s trade delusion

Gwynne Dyer is a global affairs columnist whose work appears in KTW on a regular basis. Halfway across the Pacific Ocean, U.S. President Donald Trump heard the closing statements from the G7 summit in Quebec (which he had left early to meet North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un in Singapore).

All the G7 countries had signed up to an anodyne closing communique that papered over the huge gap between the United States and the other six on world trade — but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau then said once again that he would answer Trump’s big new tariffs on steel and aluminum […]

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