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News.com.au
23-05-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
AFL 2025: St Kilda hopes injection of experience will boost midfield against Gold Coast Suns
St Kilda coach Ross Lyon is optimistic the injection of experience will rectify his side's recent midfield deficiency. Lyon omitted three young Saints – Hugo Garcia, Angus McLennan and Lance Collard – for the match with Gold Coast on Sunday. Ball-winner Jack Macrae will also miss the match with a punctured lung he sustained during last week's loss to West Coast. But the Saints have welcomed back duo Hunter Clark and Zak Jones to counter the Noah Anderson and Matt Rowell inspired Suns. Lyon says the addition of Clark and Jones offers 'more experience around the ball'. 'We're really thrilled, Hunter Clark has had an abdominal issue pre-Christmas, he's got back (and) is three games in,' he said. 'He's been a really good player for us and as has Zak Jones – his best is very, very good – and it just gives us a little bit more experience around the ball. 'We need to reward those performances and our midfield is an area we haven't been on top of our game. In the end we need to reward performances below.' Garcia has ridden the highs and lows of the AFL across the past month. The second-year Saint was issued some strong feedback against Brisbane, won a Rising Star nomination against Fremantle and faced the axe this week. Lyon says sending Garcia back to the VFL is a chance for him to show a bit of flair. 'The narrative was the clip, my narrative was feedback on action,' he said. 'One week you're coaching, next week you're sacked – it happens to all of us, it's the AFL, the AFL is a high-demand industry. 'He's a young player, second year, lots of footy, sometimes you've got to take some pressure off and let them go back (to the VFL) and express themselves.' Lyon hinted at more midfield minutes for Mattaes Phillipou last week but he struggled against the fired-up Eagles. St Kilda will look to implement him in a similar role to opponent Bailey Humphrey this week. 'Phillipou, we probably threw him to the wolves last week a little bit, and we want to give him a little bit through there, maybe a 50-50 split,' he said. 'We brought him in off no games, off a 14-week rehab because he's such a great preparer and he's still running quite well, but that up and down stuff, off the ground, just can be really challenging.
Axios
04-03-2025
- Business
- Axios
New tariffs hit, but there's a $100 billion hole in the data
President Trump is making good on tariff threats that will raise the stakes of his trade war with China and potentially ignite another in North America. Why it matters: It breaks a pattern of head fakes that Wall Street and businesses large and small had hoped would continue. Financial market jitters and bearish anecdotes from manufacturers were not enough to stave off the levies. Trump will plow ahead with 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico and double the import tax on Chinese goods to 20%, with few hints of how long the measures will last. The big picture: Escalating trade tensions have already been rattling the economy, even before the new tariffs took effect. Many businesses are in paralysis, waiting to make a move until White House trade policy becomes clear. One manufacturer told the Institute of Supply Management: "Customers are pausing on new orders as a result of uncertainty regarding tariffs. There is no clear direction from the administration on how they will be implemented, so it's harder to project how they will affect business." The intrigue: A new report casts doubt on how much a tougher trade policy has actually choked off imports from China. There are upwards of $100 billion worth of imports "missing" from U.S. data in 2024 — a trend that has worsened since the opening salvo of the trade war in 2018, according to calculations by the New York Fed. The report finds that "virtually all" of the missing imports can be attributed to China. If the nation is more reliant on Chinese imports than previously thought, the economic blowback from new tariffs might be worse. What they're saying: "Simply stated, the U.S. is saying it buys from China a lot less than what China says it is selling," Hunter Clark, an economic policy advisor at the New York Fed, writes in a new report. One clue: At least half stems from a surge of small-dollar purchases from China — including imports from popular Chinese e-commerce sites — that are not included in U.S. import data. These de minimis imports are not subject to tariffs and enter the U.S. "with light documentation," the report says, which contributes to the understated import data. About 67% of all the de minimis imports came from China between 2018 and 2021, according to estimates by Customs and Border Protection cited in the New York Fed report. What to watch: An initial Trump order would have effectively scrapped the de minimis exemption. That has been paused indefinitely while the government develops a system to collect tariffs on these goods. If that exemption is nixed, the effects might be notable for consumers buying from shopping platforms like Shein or Temu. The bottom line: Trump has implemented bigger China tariffs in recent weeks than in the entirety of his first stint in office. A flaw in trade measurement adds to the uncertainty of how big a shock might be ahead.
