<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Latest on US-China tariffs from NYT, plus important statements from the Machinists and Sierra Club below...</div><br class=""><div class="">
Arthur Stamoulis<br class="">Citizens Trade Campaign<br class="">(202) 494-8826<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">
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<div class=""><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/business/economy/trump-tariffs-china.html" class="">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/business/economy/trump-tariffs-china.html</a> </div><div class=""><div class="ehdk2mb0 css-1vkm6nb"><h1 id="link-47b9b92a" class="css-88wicj e1h9rw200" data-testid="headline">China Swiftly Counters Trump’s Tariffs With a Flurry of Trade Curbs</h1></div><p id="article-summary" class="css-79rysd e1wiw3jv0"><b class=""><i class="">After
a 10 percent tariff on Chinese products took effect on Tuesday, China
announced retaliatory measures, including tariffs and an investigation
of Google.</i></b></p></div><div class=""><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Beijing responded swiftly on Tuesday to
the tariffs President Trump had promised, announcing a fusillade of
countermeasures targeting American companies and imports of critical
products.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Mr. Trump’s 10 percent
tariff on all Chinese products went into effect at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday,
the result of an executive order issued over the weekend aimed at
pressuring Beijing to crack down on fentanyl shipments into the United
States.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The Chinese government came
back with a series of retaliatory steps, including additional tariffs on
liquefied natural gas, coal, farm machinery and other products from the
United States. It also said it had implemented restrictions on the
export of certain <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/business/china-critical-minerals.html" title="">critical minerals</a>, many of which are used in the production of high-tech products.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">In
addition, Chinese market regulators said they had launched an
antimonopoly investigation into Google. Google is blocked from China’s
internet, but the move may disrupt the company’s dealings with Chinese
companies.</p></div><div class=""><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The U.S. tariffs,
which Mr. Trump said on Monday were an “opening salvo,” come on top of
levies that the president imposed during his first term. Many Chinese
products already faced a 10 or 25 percent tariff, and the move adds a 10
percent tariff to more than $400 billion of goods that Americans
purchase from China each year.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Mr.
Trump had been planning to hit America’s three largest trading partners,
Canada, Mexico and China, with tariffs of varying degrees. But after
days of frantic negotiations, Mr. Trump agreed to pause the tariffs on <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/business/canada-mexico-tariffs-trump.html" title="">Mexico and Canada</a> for 30 days after the Canadian and Mexican governments promised to step up their oversight of fentanyl and the border.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">On Monday, Mr. Trump said he planned to speak with the Chinese leader <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/business/trump-tariffs-china.html" title="">Xi Jinping</a>
within the next 24 hours, but it was not clear exactly when the phone
call would take place. Before there was any word of a call, the Chinese
authorities rolled out the measures aimed at punishing American
companies.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">China’s counterpunches
suggested an effort to hurt American businesses and send a warning to
the Trump administration, while holding in reserve measures that could
do even more serious damage to trade between the world’s two biggest
economies. But the measures announced by Beijing, particularly the
tariffs and export controls, could take time for Chinese officials to
revoke, even if Mr. Trump were to signal a willingness to compromise.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“As
far as I can see so far, it’s a relatively limited response, affecting
no more than 30 percent of U.S. exports to China,” said Bert Hofman, a
former World Bank official and now an adjunct professor at the East
Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore. “They’re
probably trying to keep their powder dry, because this could still be
only the first step from the Trump administration.”</p></div></div><div class=""><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The Trump administration’s tariffs
“seriously undermine the rules-based multilateral training system,
damage the foundation of economic and trade cooperation between China
and the United States, and disrupt the stability of global industry
supply chains,” China’s <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.mof.gov.cn/zhengwuxinxi/caizhengxinwen/202502/t20250204_3955222.htm" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ministry of Commerce</a> said in a statement.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The
commerce ministry and China’s customs agency announced new restrictions
on exports of tungsten, tellurium, molybdenum and other metals
important for industry and new technologies, citing “national security
and interests.”</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">China’s measures
included an additional 10 percent tariff on crude oil, agricultural
equipment, larger cars and pickup trucks, as well as an additional 15
percent tariff on coal and natural gas, the <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.mof.gov.cn/zhengwuxinxi/caizhengxinwen/202502/t20250204_3955222.htm" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chinese tax authorities announced</a>. </p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">China
also said it had added two American companies to its “unreliable
entities” list. One of the companies, PVH — the American retailer that
owns the Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger brands — had already been
placed under <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/business/china-xinjiang-calvin-klein-tommy-hilfiger.html" title="">investigation</a>
by Chinese regulators in September. China said PVH had taken
“discriminatory measures” against goods from the Xinjiang region in
China’s far west.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the announcement of the antitrust investigation.</p></div><div class=""><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">While Google
dominates the world in digital advertising and internet search,
restrictions in China mean it cannot operate its search engine, its
YouTube video platform or its app store, Google Play, in the country.
Still, its operating system, Android, is used by some Chinese phone
makers, including Xiaomi, Lenovo and Vivo. Regulators around the world,
including ones in the United States, Canada, Europe and South Korea,
have probed Google on antitrust grounds or brought related cases.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Besides imposing his new tariffs, Mr. Trump’s executive order, signed on Saturday, <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/politics/trump-tariffs-shein-temu-loophole.html" title="">ended a popular workaround</a>
that many Chinese companies had used to send goods to the United States
without paying the tariffs that the president imposed in 2018. The
provision, known as de minimis, allowed popular e-commerce companies
like Shein and Temu to send billions of dollars of products from Chinese
factories directly to American consumers without tariffs.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The
deals that Mr. Trump made with Canada and Mexico on Monday brought the
United States back from the brink of a potentially devastating trade war
with two of its closest allies. But it did not preclude the threat of
similar conflicts happening later.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">On Monday, Mr. Trump made clear that he would deploy tariffs liberally to get other governments to give him what he wants.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Mr.
Trump has accused China of failing to do enough to stop the export of
fentanyl and the chemicals that are used to make it. In the executive
order he issued on Saturday, Mr. Trump said that shipments of synthetic
opioids had ravaged U.S. communities, put a severe strain on the health
care system and were the leading cause of death for people aged 18 to 45
in the United States.</p></div></div><div class=""><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">It’s not clear what steps the Chinese
government has recently taken, if any, to restrict the fentanyl trade,
beyond its previous law enforcement collaboration with the United
States. Mr. Trump discussed fentanyl with Mr. Xi in a phone call during
his first week in office.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">During Mr.
Trump’s first term, China introduced a ban on fentanyl and began working
with the United States to catch traffickers, under pressure from Mr.
Trump. And in 2023, Mr. Xi and then-President Joseph R. Biden Jr. <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/us/politics/biden-xi-china-power-balance.html" title="">agreed to a series of bilateral talks</a> on narcotics after they met in Woodside, Calif.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">A
spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington had said that China
firmly opposed tariffs and that any differences or frictions should be
resolved through dialogue. “There is no winner in a trade war or tariff
war, which serves the interests of neither side nor the world,” the
spokesman said.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Mr. Trump waged an
intense trade war with China during his first term, after initiating a
trade case that found that the country had unfairly infringed on U.S.
intellectual property. He ratcheted up tariffs on China and ultimately
applied tariffs to about 60 percent of the country’s exports to the
United States.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Now Mr. Trump, in office for two weeks, has initiated a new exchange with China.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“This
is likely only the beginning of a long process for the two countries to
negotiate,” Zhiwei Zhang, the president and chief economist of Pinpoint
Asset Management, an investment firm in Hong Kong, said in written
comments. “There is hope to de-escalate in this process, though the road
ahead may be bumpy.”</p></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">======</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.goiam.org/press-releases/iam-union-while-tariffs-pause-u-s-and-canadian-workers-should-have-seat-at-table/" class="">https://www.goiam.org/press-releases/iam-union-while-tariffs-pause-u-s-and-canadian-workers-should-have-seat-at-table/</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""><font size="5" class="">IAM Union: While Tariffs Pause, U.S. and Canadian Workers Should Have Seat at Table </font></b></div><div class="">February 3, 2025</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class="">WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2025</span> – Brian Bryant, International President of the 600,000-member IAM Union, and David Chartrand, IAM Canadian General Vice President, issued the following statement following a pause of proposed U.S.-Canadian tariffs.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4;" class="">“As the largest aerospace and defense labor union in the United States and Canada, the IAM Union is relieved that destructive tariffs between our two allied countries are being paused. A new path forward—one that doesn’t put U.S. and Canadian workers in a needless cycle of worrying about job loss due to tariff threats between allies—is possible. This moment offers the perfect opportunity for workers and unions from both countries to be a part of the solution moving forward. </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4;" class="">“For decades, we have seen millions of good-paying, high-skilled U.S. and Canadian jobs outsourced to countries with little to no labor rights. Thanks to bad trade deals, tens of thousands of good IAM Union aerospace and defense jobs have become low-wage jobs in Mexico, while China has used forced technology offsets to create its own aerospace industry. This race-to-the-bottom model is being replicated by other bad actors across the globe – and it’s hurting all workers, as well as our shared national security. </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4;" class="">“We have a chance right now to pull all stakeholders – government, business and labor – together to forge a real, comprehensive strategy to protect and grow critical manufacturing here in the United States and Canada. Workers on the both sides of the border deserve to drive policy conversations about their livelihoods, not be pawns in a larger political discussion.” </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class="">The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) is one of North America’s largest and most diverse industrial trade unions, representing approximately 600,000 active and retired members in the aerospace, defense, airlines, railroad, transit, healthcare, automotive, and other industries across the United States and Canada.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4;" class=""><a href="https://www.goiam.org/" style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(11, 49, 121); transition: all 0.2s linear 0s;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class="">goIAM.org</span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class=""> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/MachinistsUnion" style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(11, 49, 121); transition: all 0.2s linear 0s;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class="">@MachinistsUnion</span></a></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">=====</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2025/02/trump-got-it-wrong-energy-prices-will-increase-us-manufacturing-risk-due-new" class="">https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2025/02/trump-got-it-wrong-energy-prices-will-increase-us-manufacturing-risk-due-new</a> </div><div class=""><h1 class="page-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 45px; margin: 40px auto 15px; font-family: "Ringside Regular A", "Ringside Regular B", sans-serif; line-height: 1; color: rgb(0, 130, 148); padding: 0px; border: none; max-width: 747px !important;">Trump Got It Wrong: Energy Prices Will Increase, US Manufacturing At Risk Due to New Tariffs </h1><article data-history-node-id="820056" class="press-release is-promoted full col-md-8 col-md-offset-2 clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding-right: 15px; padding-left: 15px; float: left; width: 780px; margin-left: 195px; caret-color: rgb(57, 59, 62); color: rgb(57, 59, 62); font-family: "Ringside Regular A", "Ringside Regular B", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div class="field--label-hidden field--item field--type-string field field--name-field-sub-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; padding: 10px 20px 20px; font-size: 23px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(57, 59, 60); text-align: center; text-transform: capitalize;">U.S. Manufacturing, Pollution Accountability Absent From Trump’s Tariff Approach</div><div class="field--label-hidden field--name-field-published-date field--item field--type-datetime field" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; padding: 10px 20px 20px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; color: rgb(57, 59, 60);"><time datetime="2025-02-03T14:19:20Z" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" class="">February 3, 2025</time></div><div class="field--label-above field--name-field-contact field field--type-text-long" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; padding: 10px 20px 20px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; color: rgb(57, 59, 60);"><div class="field--label" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-weight: bold;">Contact</div><div class="field--item" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 20px;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; text-align: inherit !important;" class="">Ginny Roscamp, Deputy Press Secretary, Sierra Club, <a href="mailto:ginny.roscamp@sierraclub.org" class="">ginny.roscamp@sierraclub.org</a></span></p></div></div><div class="field field-name-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; padding: 10px 20px 20px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.55; color: rgb(57, 59, 60);"><div class="field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item field field--name-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.5;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: 1.5;" class=""><em style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" class=""><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" class="">UPDATE: On Monday afternoon, Trump paused the tariffs in exchange for additional cooperation on border security,</strong></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: 1.5;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; text-align: inherit !important;" class=""><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" class="">Washington, DC</strong> – Over the weekend, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped an additional </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/us/politics/trump-tariffs-global-economic-order.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(80, 129, 66); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; text-underline-offset: 2px; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-decoration-color: rgb(51, 122, 183);" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-weight: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; text-decoration: none !important; text-align: inherit !important;" class="">25% tariff</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; text-align: inherit !important;" class=""> on American importers of products from Canada and Mexico (except Canadian energy products, which will face a 10% tariff), and an additional 10% tariff on American importers of goods from China, all of which will go into effect tomorrow. Canada and Mexico have already vowed to </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/01/us/trump-tariffs-news#canada-mexico-china-trump-tariffs" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(80, 129, 66); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; text-underline-offset: 2px; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-decoration-color: rgb(51, 122, 183);" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-weight: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; text-decoration: none !important; text-align: inherit !important;" class="">retaliate</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; text-align: inherit !important;" class=""> with hundreds of billions of dollars more in tariffs. Having done nothing to prepare the U.S. economy, Trump’s tariffs will likely raise </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/economy/trump-tariffs-mexico-canada-china-increased-costs/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(80, 129, 66); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; text-underline-offset: 2px; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-decoration-color: rgb(51, 122, 183);" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-weight: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; text-decoration: none !important; text-align: inherit !important;" class="">prices </span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; text-align: inherit !important;" class="">on a range of essential goods including food, cars, and personal electronics. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: 1.5;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; text-align: inherit !important;" class="">A blanket tariff against our three largest trading partners will not protect American workers, companies, or families. Instead, Trump’s tariffs will make it harder and more expensive for the U.S. to make and finish metals critical to building out clean energy infrastructure and supporting national defense. This weekend’s decision—especially coupled with Trump’s dangerous clean manufacturing law </span><a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2025/01/sierra-club-statement-trump-executive-order-freeze-unspent-ira-and-iija" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(80, 129, 66); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; text-underline-offset: 2px; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-decoration-color: rgb(51, 122, 183);" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-weight: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; text-decoration: none !important; text-align: inherit !important;" class="">spending freeze</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; text-align: inherit !important;" class="">—starts an expensive trade war with our allies, puts American manufacturing jobs on the line, and gives polluting countries like China more space to dominate the global marketplace. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: 1.5;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; text-align: inherit !important;" class=""><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" class="">In response to the news, Sierra Club Executive Director Ben Jealous released the following statement:</strong></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: 1.5;" class=""><em style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" class="">“Donald Trump is again making the wrong move that puts even more pain on American families. The United States is demonstrating clean, billion-dollar, cutting-edge technologies to make aluminum and steel more efficiently, while some of our fiercest global competitors double down on pollution. Trump’s expensive trade war will hurt American workers and consumers by driving up costs to make clean American steel, aluminum, vehicles, and energy products. Instead of demanding that Americans pay more, Trump should support the policies that will grow domestic manufacturing, reduce costs, and help working families.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: 1.5;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; text-align: inherit !important;" class=""><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;" class="">Read more on the Sierra Club’s position on a smart approach to tariffs: “</strong></span><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/tariffs-scalpel-noths" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(80, 129, 66); text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700; transition: color 200ms ease 0s; text-underline-offset: 2px; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-thickness: 2px; text-decoration-color: rgb(51, 122, 183);" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-weight: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; text-decoration: none !important; text-align: inherit !important;" class="">Tariffs Should Be a Scalpel, Not a Sledgehammer</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; text-align: inherit !important;" class="">”.</span></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px 0px 20px; line-height: 1.5;" class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div></article></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>