Australia’s intensive lobbying to be exempt from America’s steel and aluminium tariff rollout may amount to naught, with Donald Trump reconfirming his commitment to a more comprehensive global regime.
Trump doubled down on his plan to “take in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs” in comments aligning with his commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, and director of the White House National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett. They have said tariffs would be imposed from 12 March, and that no exemptions will be granted.
