Trump, Liberation Day and tariffs
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Mr. Trump said his administration determined the tariff rate for each country based on the monetary levies those nations charge on U.S. imports, as well as non-monetary trade barriers like regulation...
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The new tariff levels are higher overall than what he’d advertised on the campaign trail, and certainly worse than markets feared: minimum tariffs of 10 percent worldwide, plus even higher tariffs fo...
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Trump, tariffs and Summers
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New Civil Liberties Alliance, a conservative legal group, on Thursday filed what it said was the first lawsuit seeking to block Donald Trump's tariffs on Chinese imports, saying the U.S. president ov...
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President Donald Trump is placing steep new tariffs on virtually all U.S. trading partners, stoking fears of rising prices for consumers and deepening trade wars.
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Trump announced a minimum tariff of 10% on global imports, with the tax rate running much higher on products from certain countries like China and those from the European Union.
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Trump, Mexico and tariff
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President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" appeared set to end North American free trade and Mexico's privileged access to the U.S. Instead, Mexican officials are celebrating being left off Trump's glo...
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Experts say it will take years to rekindle U.S. manufacturing, alter supply chains and bring home production, the goals Republican Trump and his supporters suggest his tariffs will achieve.
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President Donald Trump's punishing tariffs rocked global financial markets on Thursday, with the dollar and U.S. stocks tumbling as investors rushed to safe havens on fears a broadening trade war woul...
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Trump, recession and tariff
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Trump predicted the U.S. markets and the country itself “are going to boom” as a result of his trade policies.
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In his most aggressive tariff push yet, the president revealed a slate of country-specific duties aimed at punishing foreign exporters and reviving a “Made in America” manufacturing base.
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His plan, if fully implemented, will return the United States to the highest tariff duty as a share of the economy since the late 1800s, before the invention of the automobile, aspirin, and the incan...
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All U.S. imports face a baseline 10% tariff, effective Saturday. + Higher rates will apply to partners judged "bad actors" on trade. For example, Japan faces a 24% duty and the European Union faces a 20% levy,
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CGTN isn’t the only state media outlet to use AI to slam Trump’s trade policy. New China TV, the English-language social-media-focused brand of China’s official state news service Xinhua, also published on April 3 a three-minute, 18-second sci-fi short called “T.A.R.I.F.F.”
President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs will likely raise prices on several major goods for the foreseeable future. Trump has promoted a slew of tariffs as a way to balance trade, generate revenue,
Trump has repeatedly called April 2 "Liberation Day." He is expected to enact reciprocal tariffs on major trading partners, especially those that contribute the most to the $1.2 trillion U.S. trade deficit.
The worst sell-off of 2025 (so far) came on April 3, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping 3.98%, the S&P 500 down 4.84%, and the Nasdaq 100 plummeting 5.41% by the market close.
President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping reciprocal tariffs on what he deemed “Liberation Day” earlier this week. The tariffs and threat of a global trade war sent Wall Street spiraling, and some are saying it’s Smoot-Hawley all over again.
About 87% of the avocados being imported to the US come from Mexico. After Trump's Liberation Day orders, the popular fruit will still come tariff-free.