Many have been bemused over the US being concerned about the proposed shipping levy's impacts while it is engaged in a global trade war which has wiped trillions from the stock markets
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/09/us-say-plan-for-levy-on-ships-producing-carbon-emissions-will-drive-inflation
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@KeithMcNeill this is one of those cases where it's really important to separate the country from the president.
By design, the US is not the president. He is just the bureaucrat at the top of one branch of the federal government.
The confusion between the two has often caused a lot of practical trouble in the last couple of decades at least.
