Why A Trade War Is Actually Bad

Trump Just Tweeted They’re “Good And Easy To Win”

Eric J Scholl
4 min readMar 2, 2018

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The President promises steep across the board tariffs on steel and aluminum imports will be in place by next week: 25% on steel, 10% on aluminum.

But why the uproar? Almost all U.S. Presidents have taken action against out-and-out dumping of imported goods. Dumping is where a company sells something…

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Eric J Scholl

Peabody award winning journalist. Streaming media pioneer. Played @ CBGB back in the day. Editor-In-Chief "The Chaos Report" www.thechaosreport.com