IMF warns rising trade tensions threaten to derail global growth
Update: 15:38 18/04/2018 GMT+7
The International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday that rising U.S.-China trade restrictions threaten to damage a steady global growth picture, but there was still time for the world’s two largest economies to step back from the brink.
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