HACKWATCH
TARIFF-RAFF
IT MAY have been hard to follow exactly what was going on with Donald Trump’s tariffs over the past fortnight – but the British commentariat have been covering themselves in glory on the subject for months…
Top predictions
“Whisper it, but Trump could be poised for a tariff climbdown… Despite insisting that a 25pc tariff would be levied on China and Canada from ‘day one’ of his presidency, no such tax has immediately materialised. Speaking this week about the possibility of tariffs on China from Feb 1 instead, the number was scaled back by the president significantly.” –Kate Andrews,Telegraph, 25 January. Trump has since imposed 25 percent tariffs on Canada, and a minimum of 145 percent (at time of writing) on China