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Swiss add lustre to Trump trade deal with gold refining plan, sources say
Switzerland is proposing that its gold industry builds a refinery in the United States or increases its processing capacity there as part of a plan to reduce U.S. trade tariffs, according to two people familiar with the matter. President Donald Trump on August 7 slapped 39% tariffs on Swiss goods imports due to the U.S. trade deficit with Switzerland, which scrapped its own industrial tariffs at the start of last year. That goods trade deficit with Switzerland has been chiefly due to Swiss exports of chemicals and pharmaceutical products, plus gold. Since the tariffs kicked in, the Swiss government and the private ... (full story)
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