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Reason
Eric Boehm

After Another Delay, Trump's China Tariffs Look Even Less Like a Legitimate 'Emergency'

To place huge new tariffs on imports from China, President Donald Trump claimed that those transactions are "an unusual and extraordinary threat" to the United States.

It's a threat that the White House now says it can put off addressing for another 90 days.

On Monday, Trump again postponed the enforcement of his threatened 30 percent tariffs on imports from China, which were set to resume on Tuesday after being previously postponed in May. In a new executive order, Trump said the United States "continues to have discussions" with China "to address the lack of trade reciprocity in our economic relationship and our resulting national and economic security concerns."

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