Trump, Liberation Day and tariffs
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Trump unveiled a series of historic tariffs at the White House’s Rose Garden on Wednesday for a "Make America Wealthy Again" event as part of a day his administration dubbed "Liberation Day" for the ...
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President Donald Trump unveiled tariffs this afternoon on potentially trillions of dollars' worth of imports, an action he has called "Liberation Day."
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The countries with the world’s biggest economies reacted swiftly on Thursday to President Trump’s latest round of tariffs, warning that the levies were risking an all-out trade war that could upend t...
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China, Trump and Tariff
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Chinese state media used AI to generate plenty of videos slamming Trump’s tariffs.
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US President Donald Trump announced a sweeping new set of tariffs on Wednesday, arguing that they would allow the United States to economically flourish.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada will match U.S. President Donald Trump’s 25% auto tariffs with a tariff on vehicles imported from the United States.
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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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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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As the stock market recoiled from Pres. Donald Trump's announcement of reciprocal tariffs on what he called "Liberation Day," many average Americans feared for the cost of goods, their retirement savi...
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U.S. stocks continued their plunge in early trading on Friday, just hours after China announced retaliatory tariffs in response to President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" levies. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 1,
Trump first slapped a 10% blanket tariff on all imports into the U.S., including from uninhabited islands, such as the Heard and McDonald islands, and on places with which the U.S. runs a surplus, such as the U.
World cocoa, coffee and sugar prices slid again on Friday as markets remained rattled by U.S. president Donald Trump's sweeping 'Liberation Day' tariffs, especially after China retaliated with its own tariffs on U.
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President Trump finally announced his long-awaited “Liberation Day” tariff plan: a new 10% minimum tax on all goods entering the United States from overseas plus much-larger-than-expected “reciprocal” levies on imports from major trading partners such as China (34%),
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.”
Trump wrote in all-caps on his Truth Social platform: “THE OPERATION IS OVER! THE PATIENT LIVED, AND IS HEALING. THE PROGNOSIS IS THAT THE PATIENT WILL BE FAR STRONGER, BIGGER, BETTER, AND MORE RESILIENT THAN EVER BEFORE. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
From home goods and furniture to soft toys, sneakers and athletic apparel, a slew of U.S. companies have tapped into Vietnam in recent years in an attempt to reduce their reliance on China. They’re now taking a hit after Trump hit the Southeast Asian country with a hefty 46% tariff in his “liberation day” announcement that targeted nations around the world.
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