Sen. Jones continues bipartisan effort against new tariffs

President Donald Trump may have softened some of his rhetoric on international trade, but Sen. Doug Jones is continuing a bipartisan effort to mitigate the threat increased tariffs and a potential trade war pose for Alabama businesses.

Tariffs, which are taxes a government collects on certain imported goods, have been a staple of Trump’s trade policy. This has been especially true over the past few months as his administration has tried to make good on a promise to renegotiate “bad deals” between the United States and some of its longstanding trading partners.

Some of those deals have helped avoid tariffs on American-made goods for years, but in some cases even the threat of tariffs can motivate countries to come to the negotiating table. That seems to be the end goal of the recent tariffs Trump has levied on products from countries in Europe, Asia and North America.

“Either a country which has treated the United States unfairly on trade negotiates a fair deal, or it gets hit with tariffs,” the president wrote on Twitter last week.

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