This weekend there was much anxiety about president Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on both Canada and Mexico which would effectively start a trade war, however, late yesterday after phone calls made to both the Mexican president and the Canadian prime minister the thread was suspended for thirty days. But while the Canadian and Mexico tariffs are suspended China goes ahead. Bryan Fox asks Larry Donnelly, law lecturer in the University of Galway and a columnist with journal.ie, if can it assumed that the president is still in campaign mode and is merely carrying out what he promised in the general election campaign?
