Trump looking for trade 'reset' with most countries: ex-USTR official

Shift could start with blanket tariffs for most countries, Michael Beeman says

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Michael Beeman, a former U.S. trade official, said that the far right and the far left in the U.S. have reached an alignment on the harm that comes from trade. (Photo by Rod Searcey)

MASAHIRO OKOSHI, Nikkei Washington bureau chief

WASHINGTON -- President-elect Donald Trump will try to find a new equilibrium in trade relations that takes American tariffs as a given, a former assistant U.S. trade representative whose remit covered Japan, South Korea and the Asia-Pacific said in a Nikkei interview.

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