Ahead of panchayat elections, the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government on Wednesday presented a Rs 3.39-lakh crore budget for 2023-24, focusing on farmers, an ailing tea sector.
tariffs. so on those two fronts the tariffs are really tough. so the administration needed a win and this they can tout as a win. again, we don t have all the details, but i can tell you that lig lighthizer, essentially wanted to force more domestic car production. we still don t know if that s what they got at the end of the day. we know that this was a deal to modernize nafta. it s a 24-year-old trade agreement. i don t think anybody disagrees with the fact that it needed to be modernized, brought up to speed for the digital age. but what did the u.s. really get out of this? the president, i foundi it interesting, did focus on farmers and the fact that mexico will buy more agricultural product from the united states. but how much, will it offset all the pain that they re feeling from those other tariffs that they re feeling from other countries. christina, thanks. stephen, put this into context