Yesterday, Reuters ran a story headlined “Trump says he will set tariffs on steel and semiconductor chips in coming weeks.” Someone who has followed the Trump tariff saga would be confused, because Donald Trump already set tariffs on steel. In the seventh of ten paragraphs in the story, that is noted:
Trump in February raised tariffs on steel and aluminum to a flat 25%, but he announced in May that he would double the rate to 50% to boost domestic manufacturers.
The next paragraph sort of deals with the contradiction:
It was not immediately clear if another tariff increase on the metals was in the offing.
Somehow they realized that Donald Trump might not know what is going on with his own tariffs, but they ran a story not about that, but focused on a claim that might have no basis in reality.
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