Inside Donald Trump’s trade war ...with himself
by Molly Ball
Mar 19, 2018
3 minutes
ON FEB. 28, JOHN FERRIOLA, THE CEO OF America’s largest steel producer, Nucor, got a call from the White House. Could he be in Washington the next day? With few details to go on, Ferriola dutifully showed up at the West Wing on March 1, where he and a dozen other metals-company executives were ushered into the Cabinet Room. Soon, they were told, they would be having a private meeting with President Donald Trump.
The topic was the imposition of tariffs on imported steel and other metals, measures
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