The American Apparel & Footwear Association has said tariffs that the US has announced on imports from Mexico, Canada and China “will inject massive costs” into the shoe and clothing sectors.

It said the US economy was already “inflation-weary” and added that the imposition of tariffs on imports into the US would expose the economy further through “a damaging tit-for-tat tariff war” with key export markets.  

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