From across France, itinerant glassblowers, masons and carpenters — hewers, who squared the timbers, joiners, who fit beams together — converged on Paris.
In the executive order formalizing Trump’s new tariffs, including baseline 10% tariffs for almost all countries, exemptions were broadly defined as products in the pharmaceutical, semiconductor, lumber, copper, critical minerals and energy sectors.
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Robert Faturechi,
ProPublica,
22 Apr. 2025
This includes commodities like lumber, oil, fertilizers, farming equipment, tires and food products.
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