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New shots have been fired in the trade war.

President Trump today taking aim at friends and foes, announcing sweeping new reciprocal

tariffs against countries he describes as foreign

cheaters and foreign scavengers, slapping a baseline 10 percent levy on every country and

everything, and promising more for those he calls the worst offenders, citing Cambodia, for

example, which the president says will face a 49 percent tariff. Mr. Trump also stoking a sense of imminent peril,

calling it a national emergency. The president promising American jobs and factories will come roaring back.

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