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US Section 301 tariffs set to trigger fresh wave of trade disruption

If there is a thread that provides coherence to Donald Trump’s mad emperorship, it is the frenetic invention of new, evermore dramatic diversions: no week can be allowed to pass without new melodrama that erases the chaotic melodramas of weeks past. Nor can a week be allowed to pass without the seeds being sown for next week’s melodramas. This week it is Iran, and the computer-gaming unreality of a scorched-earth US-Israeli bombardment that has generated convulsions across economies in the...

Mar 20, 2026 &03302020202631; 08:30 UTC www.scmp.com Trending 3/5

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Neutral impact

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Moderate impact Medium-term (weeks)

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US Section 301 tariffs set to trigger fresh wave of trade disruption

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