Bush Ends Steel Tariffs
Bush’s reversal on the tariffs comes less than a month after the World Trade Organization’s highest court ruled that the tariffs violated global trade laws, and just before the European Union planned to launch sanctions against $2.2 billion in U.S. goods, including politically sensitive products like citrus from Florida and textiles from the Carolinas …
The EU threatened to sanction U.S. goods, including citrus from Florida, where Bush’s brother Jeb is governor and the state where a dispute over a few hundred votes gave Bush the White House in 2000 …
Ah, yes. Good thing that ole Dubya knows how to scratch his brother’s back.