Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to take on China and its trade practices. But according to a new study it is US allies in Asia and Europe that are set to bear the burden of a new wave of US protectionism shaping up to be the largest seen in decades. The study released yesterday by a leading expert on trade disputes and protectionism comes as US commerce secretary Wilbur Ross hurries to deliver within days a plan to impose new restrictions on steel imports, arguing that the country’s national security is at stake. The steel move is likely to be the most significant protectionist action taken by Mr Trump since he took office and is being watched closely by allies including Germany, which is chairing this year’s G20 summit in Hamburg next month. At that summit Angela Merkel is expected again to try to push Mr Trump to renounce protectionism. But the action on steel, which is aimed in large part at a flood of cheap Chinese imports on to global markets that US producers blame for the closure of US mills, is just one of a series of moves launched since Mr Trump took office. Working their way through the US trade system are moves against aluminium imports, Canadian aircraft and lumber, and Chinese solar cell and panel producers, among others. Together, they potentially represent the largest and broadest trade sanctions taken by the US since the Reagan administration in the 1980s, said Chad Bown, a former trade adviser to Barack Obama and World Bank economist who is now a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
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