Trump Tariffs Get Personal for the Harris Tweed Makers of the Hebrides

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In December 1957, Reverend Murdoch MacRae traveled from his parish on Lewis and Harris, one of the Outer Hebridean islands off the north west of mainland Scotland, across the Atlantic Ocean to confront the US Federal Trade Commission in Washington. President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s tariffs on woollen imports were…