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Mar 1, 2018

03/01/2018: Uh, what’s going on?

In retrospect, we should have seen these steel and aluminum tariffs coming. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin mentioned “reciprocal free trade,” in our interview earlier this week, and President Donald Trump said something similar today. Tariffs are a complicated macro-economic topic anytime, especially when they’re a surprise. We’ll start the show by catching you up, then look at how our allies might or might not respond. Tariffs go both ways, you know. Plus: How many cup holders is too many?

Domestic steel producers are being undercut by cheap imports. — Domestic steel producers are being undercut by cheap imports.
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Can we get enough of cup holders?
by Kai Ryssdal and Josie Fan
Whether it’s to fit an extra Big Gulp cup or to store your kids’ playthings, it seems like we always want more cup holders in our cars — and car makers are trying to meet this demand. Chester Dawson is a reporter from Wall Street Journal‘s Detroit Bureau. He writes about the new trend of […]
Beautycounter CEO wants more regulation for safer products
by Kai Ryssdal, Bridget Bodnar and Paulina Velasco
CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP/Getty Images
"I set out to get safer products into the hands of everyone," Gregg Renfrew says.
Immigration issue dominates Italian elections
ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Images
A mass influx of migrants has been met with a political backlash.

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In retrospect, we should have seen these steel and aluminum tariffs coming. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin mentioned “reciprocal free trade,” in our interview earlier this week, and President Donald Trump said something similar today. Tariffs are a complicated macro-economic topic anytime, especially when they’re a surprise. We’ll start the show by catching you up, then look at how our allies might or might not respond. Tariffs go both ways, you know. Plus: How many cup holders is too many?