Trump’s tariff now puts America’s libraries

The Trump administration’s tariff system was accused of providing all kinds of things – from things – from Small companies For major companies to America Farmer and Soup price. Now, a new report claims that the president’s economic policy can demand another victim: America’s libraries.

404 media Reports thatSince the absence of the minimum-policy exemption that has previously allowed imports of $ 800, the exchange of libraries that display books is internationally. See, there are a large number of libraries, including many university libraries, which allow the exchange of books with other academic institutions, including those in other countries. However, since Trump’s tariff began, some of these countries have stopped charging shipping materials to and from the United States, which reduced many books abroad, says the report.

404 interviews with many librarians who talked about how the Trump administration tariff policy has conducted the borrowing of the nation’s book:

“The definitions of the loans circulated in different ways of different libraries, Heather Evans, Secretary of the RMIT University in Australia … (he said) in an email. “It was largely dependent on their various procedures regarding the amount they were affected by. Some of those who used Auspost (the postal service in Australia) were affected internationally, and I saw many libraries that stopped borrowing from or from the United States at all.”

Another library, Jessica Power, the same China, Assistant Director for Resources and Reserve Participation at the Yale University library, has told the outlet that the practice of international participation is a long -term practice that was useful for academic circles:

“Interlocking loans were something that libraries were truly able to do, even in the early twentieth century,” he said. “If we are not able to do so anymore, we limit what our users can reach, because they may be limited only to what we have in our group, in the end it may hinder academic progress.”

Gizmodo continues to the White House to comment. We received an automatic email that shows that response times may be affected The government closing. “While waiting for a response, please remember that this could have been avoided if the Democrats voted in favor of the clean continuous decision to keep the government open,” according to the email.

It is not as if Maga was particularly nice for libraries or libraries. Over the past few years, many prominent campaigns have been launched against public libraries, with right -wing activists targeting LGBTQ books and others It is supposed to be “wake up” materialsDemand that such shelves are cleared of shelves. Earlier this year, as part of Doug’s disinfection, the Trump administration is also Many federal library staff launched. Now, in addition to Library devil The shooting of their employees, the Trump administration can also boast of helping to reduce the international library system – a law of their brand.