Trump's ‘intelligent' copper tariffs will ‘wake people up', says mining billionaire
Analysts and other executives have questioned the logic of imposing such a high levy when the US remained so dependent on imports of the metal, but the founder of Toronto-listed Ivanhoe Mines said the move was needed to 'wake people up' to America's vulnerability.
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