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June 13, 2019

Businesses showing discontent with trade policies

  • The president's boundless enthusiasm for tariffs has upended decades of Republican trade policy that favored free trade.
  • By PAUL WISEMAN and STEVE PEOPLES
    Associated Press

    WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's aggressive and wildly unpredictable use of tariffs is spooking American business groups, which have long formed a potent force in his Republican Party.

    Corporate America was blindsided last week when Trump threatened to impose taxes on Mexican imports in a push to stop the flow of Central American migrants into the United States.


     
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