A view from elsewhere
Ms Harris has “panned” Mr Trump’s plan to increase tariffs as “Trump’s sales tax”, wrote Azhar Azam in the Express Tribune, a Pakistani newspaper. Yet the Biden administration is seeking to “clamp down on the ‘abuse’” of “de minimis” exemptions used by Chinese e-commerce platforms, which exclude low-value parcels from duties. This could cost American consumers, as well as potentially “harming small businesses and provoking retaliation”.