President-elect Donald Trump forged a path to the White House partly on a platform of upending U.S. trade agreements and taxing imports to keep jobs from leaving the country. 

As a candidate he said he’d impose a 45 percent tariff on Chinese goods and declare China a currency manipulator, and he threatened to withdraw the U.S. from the World Trade Organization. Economists have warned that these actions would set off trade wars, hurting U.S. exports and sending prices for goods in the U.S. soaring. 

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