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📈 Monday data: Who won the trade war?

Trump’s first major tariffs were introduced in January 2018 – a (very) long eight years ago.

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Key points

  • In the AI Investment Brief today: Early AI adopters report gains, plus CoreWeave's bond woes
  • The aims were multiple: to reduce the bilateral deficit (which in 2017 stood at 375 billion dollars with China, nearly half of America’s goods deficit of $792 billion), target intellectual property theft and counter Chinese policies that favored domestic companies; and improve the US leverage by reducing its dependency on China.
  • Today’s Monday Data looks at what eight years of tariffs have really achieved.
  • Chinese imports have dropped, but China’s supply-chain impact remains strong.

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  • [1]📈 Monday data: Who won the trade war?
    Exponential View (Azeem Azhar) · Oct 19, 01:31 PM
    Trump’s first major tariffs were introduced in January 2018 – a (very) long eight years ago.
    In the AI Investment Brief today: Early AI adopters report gains, plus CoreWeave's bond woes

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