A trade war looms with China, the imposition of tariffs that could imperil the entire global trading system.
Our concern is that, having voted for Brexit, we are likely to see the introduction of trade barriers and the imposition of tariffs," she says.
The actions have included the imposition of tariffs on steel, paper and other goods by the Commerce Department, and complaints filed at the W.T.O.
Re "Tired Protectionism" (editorial, Sept. 19): You claim in your editorial decrying President Obama's imposition of tariffs on imported Chinese tires that China has competed fairly.
The European Union has drawn up a list of imports from the United States, worth about $2.1 billion annually, to penalize in retaliation for the Bush administration's recent imposition of tariffs of up to 30percentt on some imported steel.
But today Robert S. Miller Jr., the chairman of Bethlehem Steel, charged that "granting a large number of exemptions will negate the original purpose of the president's imposition of tariffs -- the recovery of the American steel industry".
Although the ruling is the result of a quasi-judicial review process by civil servants in the Commerce Department, the imposition of tariffs by an arm of the Obama administration also seems certain to enter the partisan fray.
In other action on Monday, a coalition of companies that sell and install solar panels released a study predicting that the imposition of tariffs could cost the United States about 60,000 jobs in the next few years.
