Marking his trip to Britain by clobbering hopes of a UK-US bilateral deal last week, Donald Trump reminded everyone that he is a deeply aggressive and unreliable interlocutor on trade. His threats have turned into reality. Having already implemented one round of steel and aluminium tariffs against a range of countries, supplanted with more duties on imports from China, the president is now threatening a general set of restrictions on autos plus an escalation of the tariff war with Beijing.
上週訪問英國時,唐納•川普(Donald Trump)乾的一件大事就是沖淡人們對英美締結雙邊貿易協議的希望,這提醒了大家,在貿易對話上,他是多麼咄咄逼人且不可靠。他的一些威脅已成現實。他已經對衆多國家實施了一輪鋼鋁關稅,接著對從中國進口的部分商品提高了關稅,現在又威脅要對汽車實行全面的限制,並升級與中國的關稅戰。