During a US Senate finance committee hearing, the US senator from Virginia Mark Warner slammed Donald Trump’s 10% tariff on Australian imports, referencing the free trade agreement between the two countries and Australia’s trade surplus with the US.
The senator labeled the new tariff policy ‘insulting’ and ‘ridiculous’, calling Australia ‘one of our strongest allies’.
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