Trade, tariffs and taxes have always been huge issues in history. The 1773 Boston Tea Party, where protesting Americans forcibly dumped 342 chests full of precious tea from an English merchant ship into the city’s harbour, is one of those iconic historical events that shaped the United States’ economic and political landscape. The event, a protest against English Mercantilist policies favouring the East India Company, was the precursor of the American War of Independence. It was all about fair trade. Some two and a half centuries after that event, another trade war is in progress. This time, it is America...