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Michael Stutchbury

Expect Trump’s trade war to leave more bite marks next time

The quick apparent resolution will encourage Trump to keep strong-arming other friends and foes into doing whatever by threatening their access to the American market.

Donald Trump’s wham-bam deals to pause at least part of his US trade war are far from the end of the threat.

Putting on hold his weekend a vow to slap a 25 per cent tax on imports from America’s two biggest trading partners checked the financial market sell-off and eased fears of a new inflation spike.

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Michael Stutchbury is the former editor-in-chief and editor-at-large of The Australian Financial Review. Michael left in 2025 after more than four decades writing and editing national newspapers.

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