Trump's Tariffs Threaten US Economy
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Trump has turned his back on the foundation of US economic might
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Donald Trump has turned his back on the foundation of US economic might - the fallout will be messy.
Trump has imposed sweeping tariffs of at least 10% on almost every product that enters the US .
It catapults the US way above the G7 and G20 nations into levels of customs revenue associated with Senegal , Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan .
The White House also turned its back on some fundamentals of both conventional economics and diplomacy.
David Autor , coiner of the term " China shock", coined the term ' China shock' in 2001 .
China joined the World Trade Organisation , having relatively free access to US markets.
US consumers en masse got richer with cheaper goods, but the quid pro quo was a profound loss of manufacturing to East Asia .
Autor's calculation was that by 2011 , this.
saw the loss of one million US manufacturing jobs, and 2.4 million jobs overall.
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