How foreign trade zones in the U.S. came into existence
3 minutos Foreign Trade Zones can be a way to get around a tariff. They are on U.S. soil, but they don’t count as U.S. soil for customs purposes. There are hundreds of them around the U.S. DAVID GREENE: All right. If we’re looking for some historic parallel to President Trump’s tariffs on aluminum and steel, it may be Smoot-Hawley. That was a sweeping protectionist tariff in 1930. It slapped taxes on everything from imported butter to foreign tombstones, and it’s worth noting almost Continue lendo→