2138 GMT - Tariffs dislocate global trade, add to costs, and protect industries that have no right to exist, says Stephen Koukoulas, managing director of Market Economics in Canberra. Trump's tariffs and the understandable and legitimate retaliation from Canada, Mexico, China--and soon everyone else--is the proverbial "sand in the gearbox of global trade and growth," he says. There's not a country that has achieved long-run sustainable increases in growth and living standards as a result of a tariff wall, Koukoulas says. (james.glynn@wsj.com; @JamesGlynnWSJ)
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