Can Trump's bullying style deliver more trade breakthroughs?
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October 3, 2018
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has muscled Canada into joining a revamped North American trade deal, sealed a pact with South Korea and coaxed a reluctant Japan into agreeing to one-on-one trade talks.
All in the past two weeks.
To President Donald Trump and his allies, the results vindicate his drive to upend traditional trade policy and deploy import taxes — real and threatened — as a cudgel to bully concessions out of America's trading partners.
"Without tariffs," Trump bold declared Monday after his team announced that Canada had followed Mexico in agreeing to a revamped North...
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