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4 charts showing why putting tariffs on your friends is a bad idea

  • Written by William Hauk, Associate Professor of Economics, University of South Carolina
Don't forget your friends.AP Photo/Evan Vucci

Europeans, Canadians and Mexicans buy more American goods and services than anyone else in the world. So why would the Trump administration be willing to start a trade war with the United States’ most important trading partners – as well as some of its oldest allies?

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