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Politics
Al Jazeera Staff

Penguins, vaccines: Can negotiations save Trump’s oddest tariff targets?

U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (not pictured) in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. [Kevin Mohatt/Reuters]

President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on more than 180 trading partners of the United States last week.

He described these as “reciprocal tariffs” against countries that impose heavy duties on US imports, aimed at rebalancing a global trade equation that he has long argued is weighted against his country.

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