Trump uses State of the Union address to appeal for more tariff powers

President Trump used his second State of the Union address on Tuesday to tout his trade agenda and to plead for more tariff powers. In a speech that included typical Trump trade rhetoric, the president, as expected, called on Congress to pass the “United States Reciprocal Trade Act” so that “if another country places an unfair tariff on an American product, we can charge them the exact same tariff on the exact same product that they sell to us.” The...