US not afraid of trade war over tariffs

Buenos Aires: The United States is not seeking a trade war over tariffs but does not fear one, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Tuesday after a meeting of G20 finance ministers.
A trade war “is not our goal, but we are not afraid of it,” Mnuchin said at the end of the two-day meeting in Buenos Aires aimed at averting a crisis sparked by looming US tariffs on steel and aluminium.
“We have to be prepared to act in the US interest to defend free and fair reciprocal trade. In doing that the…

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