US tariffs on national security grounds questionable: economist

摘要

The Section 232 tariffs on steelimports on national security grounds is aquestionable argument, a leading economistsaid March 20.Speaking at the S&P Global Platts SteelMarkets North America conference inChicago, Phil Levy, senior fellow on the globaleconomy at the Chicago Council of GlobalAffairs, said the US Commerce Department’sdocument on its investigation on the effectsof steel imports on national security providedno evidence of any specific national securitythreat.