The Trump administration’s tariff regime has been accused of royally screwing up all sorts of stuff—from small businesses to big businesses to America’s farms and the price of soup . Now, a new report claims that the president’s dingbat economic policy can claim another victim: America’s libraries.
404 Media reports that , since the elimination of the de minimis exemption—the policy that previously allowed imports worth less than $800 to go tariff-free—the flow of exchange for libraries that loan out books internationally has been all messed up. See, there are a large number of libraries, including many university libraries, that allow books to be exchanged with other academic institutions, including those in other countries. However, since Trump’s tariff nonsense began, some of t