A deepening trade war with China battered the Dow Jones Industrial Average this week and raised not just pessimism over trade, but worries over the direction of US-China relations.
The latest round of tariffs is "far too great a gamble for the US economy", the National Retail Federation said in a statement. "Taxing Americans on everyday products like clothes and shoes is not the answer for holding China accountable.
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