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Trading partners express anger, including Mexico, which buys more steel from the US than it sends the other way. Plus, Bernie Sanders on why the Democrats failedDon’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up hereGood morning.The US has doubled tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum imports to 50%, pressing ahead in the face of criticism from key trading partners with a measure that Donald Trump says is intended to revive the American industry.Does the tariff apply to all trading partners? It applies to all trading partners except Britain, the only country so far that has struck a preliminary trade agreement with the US during a 90-day pause on a wider array of Trump tariffs.What else did he say? In the account he gave to colleagues, Nasasra said some of the paramedics survived the initial assault and were calling for help when they were shot dead, the PRCS said. Continue reading...

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