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Catherine Rampell: Trump has been playing right into China's hands

On Thursday, President Trump signed sweeping new tariffs on steel and aluminum, against the urging of economists, allies and most of the manufacturing, retail and home-building industries. This policy will likely destroy American jobs both in industries that use steel and aluminum and in ones that may soon be hit by retaliatory measures from other countries.

But no matter all that. Trump really, really wants to stick it to China! Too bad this won’t stick much.

Right now China isn’t even among the top 10 producers of U.