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To state the obvious, a 25% tariff on Mexico and Canada and a 10% tariff on China, if sustained, would be a massive shock -- a much bigger move in one weekend than all the trade action that Trump took in his first term 1/x

Tariff EO is not on WH website yet, but here are the details per the Financial Times. 1) 25% tariffs on ALL imports from Canada & Mexico 2) Additional 10% tariffs on imports from China. 3) Trump invoked IEEPA to impose tariffs. 4) EO provides for increased tariffs if countries retaliate.

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NEW: How did the Trump administration disembowel USAID in less than three weeks? The first step was seizing control of the agency’s IT system — including the personal data of all its employees. This, we were told, may have violated federal law. 1/

In today’s story, anna barry-jester | subscribe to your local paper! and I name the top agency officials who gave “the keys to the kingdom” to Musk’s DOGE engineers + the legal jeopardy the administration may find itself in propublica.org/article/usaid-…

NEWS: The Associated Press just filed a lawsuit against the White House officials who barred its journalists from covering press events nytimes.com/2025/02/21/bus…

For the journalists out there, those numbers are not tariffs. The European Union, e.g., has weighted average tariff rates of ~ 3% and arguably lower on US goods. So they are clearly including VATs and who knows what else?? This false reciprocity is nonsense. For more, see:

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Vietnam is the big Asian economy with few defenses against tariffs. They hate being pushed to the wall or feeling like a colony again. But they have no choice here. My latest for Council on Foreign Relations Vietnam Scrambles in a Tariff Bind on.cfr.org/3FYE1Y5 via Council on Foreign Relations

BREAKING: Trump appointed federal judge sides with AP in lawsuit over WH access, writing, "...under the First Amendment, if the Govt opens its doors to some journalists—be it to the Oval Office, the East Room, or elsewhere—it cannot then shut those doors to other journalists

WATCH | Former U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer discusses the Trump administration’s trade agenda and the future of U.S. trade policy in a conversation with CFR President and former U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

NPR memo: Pope Leo offers thoughts for journalists. The times are “both difficult to navigate and to recount,” and demand that “each one of us” should “never give in to mediocrity.”