GOP Pushback on Trump Tariffs Was Getting Loud Before Pause

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Donald Trump’s growing global trade war expanded even further Wednesday as his administration officially instituted sweeping “reciprocal tariffs” against the United States’ international trade partners. The new taxes ranged from 20 percent on the European Union and 32 percent on Taiwan to a staggering 104 percent tariff levied against China, whose leaders immediately retaliated with an 84 percent tax on American goods. Then, abruptly...