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LONDON (Reuters) - The new United States administration seems in no rush to lift the aluminium and steel tariffs imposed by Donald Trump in 2018.
Workers are seen inside the Magnitude 7 Metals LLC aluminium smelter which is reopening and taking on hundreds of local workers in New Madrid, Missouri, U.S., May 3, 2018. REUTERS/Karen Pulfer Focht
Indeed, one of Joe Biden’s first acts was to reverse Trump’s final-hour lifting of tariffs on aluminium from the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
“The available evidence indicates that imports from the UAE may still displace domestic production and thereby threaten to impair our national security,” he said, true to the spirit of the original Section 232 investigations.
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Weeks before the 1980 census officially began, the Federation for American Immigration Reform launched its campaign to exclude unauthorized immigrants from population counts that, according to the Constitution, must include the whole number of persons in each state. Image: Ernie Leyba/The Denver Post via Getty Images
Even before taking office, former President Donald Trump s administration obsessed over the U.S. census.
From a failed bid for a citizenship question to a presidential memo about unauthorized immigrants that was fast-tracked to the Supreme Court, its moves over the past four years followed a playbook first drawn up more than four decades ago by the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
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Trump has struggled to find and maintain a defense team, a remarkable change from the star-studded group that represented him for his first trial, including figures such as Ken Starr, who headed the investigation into former President Bill Clinton that led to his impeachment, and Alan Dershowitz, a constitutional law expert who defended O.J. Simpson.