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Sophia Murphy

@foodresilience.bsky.social
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Food rights advocate. Proud to serve as @IATP ED. Posts are not organizational endorsements (nor mine, necessarily).

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Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy @iatp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The U.S. and Canada have been locked in a tense tariff battle this month. Bilateral trade talks have collapsed, which could result in lasting resentment between the two trading partners. Read our latest from IATP Executive Director (and Canadian citizen) Sophia Murphy: www.iatp.org/what-next-me...
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Oh Canada! What next in the mess of U.S.-Canadian trade relations?
This month, Canada and the U.S. have been locked in a tense trade battle. Following the announcement of a 50% tariff on Canadian goods, Canada responded with its own retaliatory tariffs. Bilateral tra...
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Sophia Murphy @foodresilience.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Oh Canada! What next in the mess of U.S.-Canadian trade relations? | IATP www.iatp.org/what-next-me...
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Oh Canada! What next in the mess of U.S.-Canadian trade relations?
This month, Canada and the U.S. have been locked in a tense trade battle. Following the announcement of a 50% tariff on Canadian goods, Canada responded with its own retaliatory tariffs. Bilateral tra...
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Apparently, it's #WorldLionDay! A magnificent lion head carved from mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago. Although small in size (H. 2.3 cm), it exhibits remarkable detail. Found at the Vogelherd Cave, located in the Swabian Jura region. On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg
A carved lion’s head made from mammoth ivory, shown in close-up against a black background.
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Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy @iatp.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Last month, IATP's Sophia Murphy traveled to Cameroon for the World Trade Organization's biennial conference. Here she reflects on the WTO's waning relevance, the new proposals that offer a way forward, and the work to be done to reform our global trade systems. www.iatp.org/reflections-...
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Reflections from Cameroon and WTO MC14
In March, IATP Executive Director Sophia Murphy traveled to Cameroon for the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference. While the WTO still struggles to adapt and advance negotiations betw...
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Sophia Murphy @foodresilience.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Minnesota CEOs Cry Crocodile Tears Over ICE prospect.org/2026/01/28/m...
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Minnesota CEOs Cry Crocodile Tears Over ICE - The American Prospect
Executives who lobbied for Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which enabled the immigration terror in their state, now want everyone to believe they are on the people’s side.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 24/01/2026
I just responded to the scene at 26th and Nicollet shortly after the observer was shot. They teargassed and/or pepper sprayed Jana Shortal of KARE11 at the scene and she was being treated when I walked up. ICE have a fancy camera they are using to scan the faces of the crowd.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
On the execution in Minnesota: Obviously, the individuals involved should be held accountable. But responsibility goes to the top of ICE and CBP, and DHS. Their appropriations come up next week in the senate. Not a cent for DHS without pulling ICE and CBP off the streets, in MN and everywhere else.
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Sophia Murphy @foodresilience.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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SNAP for Minnesota Challenged Amid Ongoing Turmoil
A federal judge blocked the USDA from cutting off some food assistance funding this week, but other Trump administration threats remain.
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Sophia Murphy @foodresilience.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
An excellent speech. Serious, clear, compassionate, determined, angry. Thank you, Governor.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/12/2025
A third of the women in the maternity ward have life-threatening complications that could be treated simply with food. They suffer from anemia and high blood pressure. Their babies are born early, weighing too little and with underdeveloped lungs.
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The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive
After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/11/2025
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy @iatp.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
“Overall, what Trump has done is throw international markets into turmoil. And he’s created doubt in the minds of those who are importing U.S. commodities... that the U.S will not be reliable.” @foodresilience.bsky.social www.brownfieldagnews.com/news/iatp-bl...
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IATP blasts Trump admin’s use of tariffs - Brownfield Ag News
The executive director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy says the Trump administration’s use of tariffs has taken a toll on U.S. farmers and ranchers. “It’s been devastating,” Sophia M...
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Sophia Murphy @foodresilience.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
The trade-off of a shrinking cattle herd: higher prices, lower emissions | IATP www.iatp.org/shrinking-ca... Despite recent USTR deal to access Aus beef markets, US ranchers not gearing up to increase herds. Nor should they. We need smaller herds, enforce competition rules, decent prices & lower GHG
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The trade-off of a shrinking cattle herd: higher prices, lower emissions
The U.S. cattle herd is the smallest it's been in 70 years. In June, the price of ground beef rose over $6, the highest since the government started tracking in 1980.
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Sophia Murphy @foodresilience.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
At the starting line of EU budget negotiations | IATP www.iatp.org/starting-lin...
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At the starting line of EU budget negotiations
What EU budget negotiations mean for more sustainable and agroecological farming
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
By me and the super-talented Ritia Liu How Trump’s anti-immigrant policies could collapse the US food industry - visualized www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How Trump’s anti-immigrant policies could collapse the US food industry - visualized
The president is threatening to deport essential farm workers, grocery clerks and food delivery drivers. But without them, shelves could go empty and prices could soar
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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 10/07/2025
🫰☕Feeling the pinch every time you buy a coffee? Blame hedge fund speculators. 💲"Hedge funds and other financial speculators were to blame for '80 per cent' of the surge in coffee prices that created 'unbelievable' volatility" according to Lavazza. www.ft.com/content/b5d7... #costofliving
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Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy @iatp.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
🧵 The budget reconciliation bill passed by Republicans in Congress and signed by President Trump will increase hunger in America, risk closure of rural hospitals, and take resources from the bottom of the income ladder and give them to the top. (1/4)
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Inequality Media @inequalitymedia.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy. These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households. If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?
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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 28/04/2025
Join our team! 🌍IPES-Food is hiring a full-time Coordinator to help us lead action for sustainable and equitable #foodsystems. Based in #Brussels, working with global experts. Apply by May 23! ➡️ ipes-food.org/job/ipes-foo... #Hiring #Jobs #Brusselsjobs #Sustainability #JoinOurTeam
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IPES-Food Coordinator - IPES-Food
IPES-Food is recruiting a Coordinator based in Brussels. Working as part of a small and dynamic team, the new Coordinator will lead and coordinate IPES-Food’s work, ensuring the effective delivery of ...
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Sophia Murphy @foodresilience.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
TPP and Trump tariffs both merit protest. Neither values decent jobs, prices pollution or protects natural resources. Neither addresses inequality. Neither offers anything to those still paying for ´90s trade deals. Tariffs may be more nonsensical but the future needs new rules and new measures
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Sophia Murphy @foodresilience.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Which makes you wonder if the target is Harvard or the IRS. Indeed, porque no los dos?
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
A helpful guide to the current state of US trade policy:
a picture of the apple logo with the caption "0% tariff" next to a picture of a real apple with the caption "10% tariff"
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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 09/04/2025
"You boy! What tariff is it today?"
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
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Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com · 06/04/2025
Europe has a strong and diverse amateur entomology tradition. The U.S. does not. We have great efforts, but little national coordination. When institutional science collapses here, there is much less out there to catch what falls. The risk to the public immense: www.wired.com/story/usda-f...
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DOGE’s Cuts at the USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise and Invasive Species to Spread
Thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees, including food inspectors and disease-sniffing-dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports and pests to proliferate.
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Ricardo J. Salvador @cadwego.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
‘The opportunity for price gouging or other forms of manipulation are high, per Errol Schweizer @grocerynerd.bsky.social, a veteran of the grocery industry who publishes The Checkout Grocery Update, a newsletter. “Consumers won’t know if things are priced correctly or they are getting ripped off.”’
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Grocery Shoppers Will Feel the Tariffs First in the Produce Aisle
Higher prices could also be coming soon for seafood, sugar and coffee. But it may be a while before importers and retailers can gauge the effects of the new fees.
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Sophia Murphy @foodresilience.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
important shift but also important that this is not *food specifically, but ag more widely. US exports vast amounts of low cost grain and oilseeds (+ fruit & veg to Canada; meat + feed to Mexico), & imports higher value processed foods, more fruit and veg, & booze. www.ers.usda.gov/data-product...
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Ag and Food Statistics: Charting the Essentials - Agricultural Trade | Economic Research ServiceLock
The leading U.S. agricultural exports are grains and feeds, soybeans, livestock products, tree nuts, fruits, vegetables, and other horticultural products. The leading U.S. imports are horticultural an...
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Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy @iatp.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
PRESS RELEASE: President Trump announced more extreme tariffs today, escalating a tariff war that will likely raise costs for farmers and increase food prices for consumers. @benlilliston.bsky.social @foodresilience.bsky.social www.iatp.org/trumps-tarif...
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Trump’s tariffs threaten to increase costs, drive down prices for farmers
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump announced more extreme tariffs today, including against some of the U.S.’s major agriculture export trading partners. Counter-tariffs are widely expected to h...
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Peter Ungphakorn @coppetainpu.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This. Plus the idea that richer countries help the poorest grow. The tariffs on exports from least-developed countries such as Cambodia and Laos are among the highest. It's not just callous. It encourages migration.
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Bryce Oates @bryceoates.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Interested in trade policy on "Liberation Day?" Here's a better way reading list. Featuring @wallachlori.bsky.social @theprospect.bsky.social + @foodresilience.bsky.social @iatp.bsky.social and more.
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U.S. Trade Policy Under Trump is a Mess. Here's Some Ideas to Fix It.
As Trump rolls out more tariffs, these progressive leaders have thoughts about how to improve trade policy in ways that support workers, farmers, consumers, and environmental protections.
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Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy @iatp.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
New from @foodresilience.bsky.social: Trump’s tariffs — with more to be announced tomorrow — are breaking trade relationships, raising prices for consumers and creating turmoil for farmers — at the same time as support for resilient domestic food systems is being slashed. www.iatp.org/tariff-mayhem
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Tariff mayhem: A shortcut to higher prices, fewer jobs, and broken friendships
Love them or hate them, there is no getting around how tariffs work — the country that imposes them pays for them. To repeat what is rapidly becoming household knowledge across the United States: tari...
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Sophia Murphy @foodresilience.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
www.iatp.org/tariff-mayhem The government could have opted to use one of tariffs’ predictable dynamic effects: a bigger domestic market. Many U.S. farm organizations could support tariffs for fair market prices and more regional sales. But this threatens U.S. farmers with a big hit and no upside.
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Tariff mayhem: A shortcut to higher prices, fewer jobs, and broken friendships
Love them or hate them, there is no getting around how tariffs work — the country that imposes them pays for them. To repeat what is rapidly becoming household knowledge across the United States: tari...
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Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy @iatp.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
"If you are taking away export markets, increasing costs and gutting local food system efforts, it’s hard to see how farmers and rural communities don’t pay a price." @benlilliston.bsky.social
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Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy @iatp.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
"The chaos the Trump Administration is creating through these tariff fights should spur new thinking about how trade policy could support a more resilient food and agriculture economy, one that focuses on people, community and the planet - not just multinational agribusiness firms."
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Sophia Murphy @foodresilience.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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Exclusive: US suspends financial contributions to WTO, trade sources say
The United States has paused contributions to the World Trade Organization, three trade sources told Reuters, as U.S. President Donald Trump's administration ramps up efforts to cut government spending.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Brilliant, unexpected and heretofore utterly unreported upon!! Dictionary.com open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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The world's leading online dictionary: English definitions, synonyms, word origins, example sentences, word games, and more. A trusted authority for 25+ years!
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 25/03/2025
By threatening what he dubbed “secondary tariffs” on countries that buy oil from Venezuela to choke off its oil trade with other nations, Trump appeared to invent a new weapon of economic statecraft
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Trump’s Threat of ‘Secondary Tariffs’ Invents New Trade Weapon
President Donald Trump appeared to invent a new weapon of economic statecraft on Monday by threatening what he dubbed “secondary tariffs” on countries that buy oil from Venezuela to choke off its oil ...
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Sophia Murphy @foodresilience.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Ten years I read about rockers that keep the spare Rolex wound since you only wear 1 at a time. Same paper covered fashion for couples to pay to seed clouds ahead of wedding to reduce chance of rain. While so many are still fighting for recognition from the state, power has passed to vandals.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Can anyone explain to me 1) whether (besides the SDNY lawsuit over climate data removed) anyone is suing on behalf of farmers 2) if not why not? Trump is bankrupting farmers. www.hppr.org/hppr-news/20...
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Funding freeze leaves Kansas farmers unpaid for work they already completed
Many Kansas farmers are in limbo and waiting for promised payments under contracts they signed with the federal government. It comes after a federal directive from the Trump administration paused paym...
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Ben Lilliston @benlilliston.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
#USDA's egg import strategy struggling.
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
May I strongly recommend European policy makers and pundits to read Keynes’s Economic Consequences of the Peace before pondering to slash the welfare state to build the warfare state.
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The tariff shock will create an opportunity for sellers’ inflation 2.0. It functions like the pandemic cost shocks. There will be plenty of confusion on the part of consumers. Prices will rise promptly but inventories were bought at pre-tariff costs. This alone means windfalls.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
For context: The ENTIRE population of this town is <2000 souls And they all kick ass en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waitsfi...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"Transparency."
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Ben Lilliston @benlilliston.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Collectively, Mexico, Canada and China account for 48 percent of all forecasted 2025 U.S. farm sales abroad. www.mitchellrepublic.com/opinion/colu...
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Guebert: Trump trade strategy: Big sticks, big bets
The last time the Trump White House played this tariff game, American farmers lost markets in China, and then paid out $23B in special federal payments to corn, soybean, and cotton growers.
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Bryce Oates @bryceoates.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The Trump-Musk war on federal workers could hit rural America pretty hard.
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The Trump-Musk War on Federal Workers Could Hit Rural America hard.
239 rural counties from all over the nation have local economies driven by federal and state government employees.
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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 07/02/2025
This decision follows a lawsuit filed by the largest U.S. government workers' union and an association of foreign service workers.
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Trump-appointed judge temporarily blocks efforts to dismantle USAID
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Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy @iatp.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
USTR nominee Jamieson Greer’s Senate confirmation hearing is tomorrow. How does the Trump Administration plan to work with trade partners, and who will compensate the farmers and producers caught in the crossfire of reckless trade wars? @foodresilience.bsky.social www.iatp.org/three-questi...
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Three questions for USTR nominee Jamieson Greer
Trade talk and tariffs were a theme throughout Donald Trump’s campaign. But no one predicted that just two weeks into his presidency, the U.S. would be on the brink of a trade war with its two closest...
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