Why Obama had to impose those Chinese tyre tariffs

The Malaysian Insider, 16 Sep 2009
WASHINGTON, Sept 16 — Late last Friday night as everyone in Washington was asleep, the White House imposed 35 per cent tariffs on tyres from China. President Barack Obama and his top aides may have hoped that issuing a press release at the onset of a lazy autumn weekend would reduce the overall political impact of the decision to impose trade sanctions on the Chinese.
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