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The trouble with tariffs - are we headed for a global trade war?

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Since returning to the White House less than four weeks ago, the message from Donald Trump on trade appears to be tariffs, tariffs. tariffs.

He's now promised to impose reciprocal tariffs on every country that taxes U.S. imports.

So as the rest of the world starts to talk retaliation, are we looking at a global trade war?

On this edition of The Agenda, Juliet Mann takes the world's trade temperature with Peter Van den Bossche, International Economic Law Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University and former Chair of the appellate body of the World Trade Organisation, Jeffrey Schott, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Stuart Malawer - international trade lawyer and distinguished service professor at George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government.

The trouble with tariffs - are we headed for a global trade war?
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