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Economists To Trump: Don't Impose Section 232 Steel Tariffs

According to The Washington Post, the economists, all former chairmen and chairwomen of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, warned in a letter to President Donald Trump that imposing tariffs under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 would likely do more harm than good. 

“We urge you to avoid a policy that would likely incur greater economic and diplomatic costs than any conceivable national security gain,” they wrote. 

The Post has the story here.