With the Trump administration pledging to impose tariffs on aluminium and steel imports to the United States, the spectre of populist-driven protectionism has once again risen to the fore. Appreciating the part free trade has played in Australia’s quarter-century of uninterrupted economic growth; the Prime Minister was right to leap to the defence of free and open markets.
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