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Here's why Trump's new tariffs are a shockingly stupid approach

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President Donald Trump imposed universal tariffs that he calls reciprocal, supposedly based on the amount each country tariffs our imports.
Vietnamese imports will now be hit with a 46 percent tariff; E.U. goods face a 20 percent one, Japanese goods a 24 percent one.
Some Twitter sleuths have discovered that those countries aren't in fact levying such high rates on us.
The tariffs cannot cultivate domestic manufacturing, because they were made to be contingent, temporary, negotiable.
Watch this explosive, highly contentious episode of Just Asking Questions with Batya Ungar-Sargon on tariffs and deportations.
Amazon has submitted a bid to purchase TikTok from its Chinese parent company, Byte Dance .
The administration is not seriously considering the offer, though, for reasons unclear.
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