Australia won’t escape the fallout of the Trump trade chaos
- Written by Scott French, Senior Lecturer in Economics, UNSW Sydney
In a hectic 24 hours of trade diplomacy, US President Donald Trump has paused his threatened 25% tariffs on US imports from Canada and Mexico, while keeping 10% tariffs on imports from China.
Australian companies with operations in Canada or Mexico such as Rio Tinto, whose Canadian operations export billions of dollars of aluminium to the US, have...