CNN ser på Donald Trumps straftold på stål og aluminium.
Og selvom denne lov vil skade USA meget, så beskriver CNN, hvorledes Argentina har en langt stærkere protektionistisk tradition end USA. Det er så galt, at en iPhone i Argentina koster næsten 2000 dollars, medens den samme telefon i nabolandet Chile, der har en mere åben økonomi, koster 42% mindre. CNN skriver om årsagen til de høje priser:
The former government, led by Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, took a similar tactic that Trump is using today.
Kirchner told phone makers to manufacture in the country if they wanted to sell there. Apple passed on the demand. Blackberry opened a plant in Tierra del Fuego, a city closer to Antarctica than Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires. (Kirchner, now a senator, has her core voter base in southern Argentina).
Macri, the current president, says tariffs have badly hurt Argentina.
"Protectionism, isolationism, the last 30 years -- the only [achievement] was consolidating poverty," Macri told CNN in an interview last April.
