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Garritt C. Van Dyk, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Waikato

Trump is reviving a tariff strategy from America’s ‘Gilded Age’. It didn’t end well last time

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A White House fact sheet about Donald Trump’s recently announced “Fair and Reciprocal Plan” on trade described it as “the art of the international deal” – a reference to Trump’s 1987 business book, The Art of the Deal.

It was a classic piece of self-marketing from the president, but whether his latest tariff proposal will really turn out to be artful is very much open to question.

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