‘Incredible even by Trump’s standards’: US toll proposal ditched in just 24 hours

By Sky News Australia

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​The Australian’s Chief International Correspondent Cameron Stewart says America’s 24-hour turnaround to ditch the proposal to introduce a shipping toll through the Strait of Hormuz is “incredible even by Trump’s standards”. ​“I think that plan from Donald Trump was never going to fly,” Mr Stewart told Sky News Australia. ​“The idea of putting a levy, a US levy, on ships going through the Strait of Hormuz would have actually added to the price of oil around the world and added to inflation.” ​“So that was never going to fly.”

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