Trump, tariffs and Liberation Day
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President Trump's tariffs have sent the stock market spiraling and shockwaves through the American economy, affecting farmers, autoworkers and small business owners.
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The U.S. Senate approved a Republican budget blueprint early on Saturday that aims to extend trillions of dollars worth of President Donald Trump's 2017 tax cuts and sharply reduce government spendin...
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President Donald Trump's sweeping reciprocal tariffs announcement on Wednesday has several countries taking varied approaches in how to respond.
President Donald Trump is scheduled to announce significant tariffs on other countries in a speech Wednesday afternoon at the White House.
President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs are a day away – and they’ll go into effect sooner than some had expected. As in, immediately, the White House said Tuesday. Although many details remain unknown,
President Trump just unveiled sweeping tariffs that will reverberate through the US economy, sending inflation higher and weakening economic growth.
President Donald Trump says “Liberation Day” is coming. On Wednesday, he plans to roll out a set of tariffs that he promises will free the United States from foreign goods.
The Trump administration took that formula’s figure, -0.5 for South Korea, and divided it by two to calculate the U.S. “discounted reciprocal” tariff rate. So, while South Korea imposes an effective tariff rate of .79 percent on U.S. goods, the reciprocal tariff rate the U.S. is imposing on South Korea is 25 percent.
More than a dozen countries set for US reciprocal tariffs spent the first day of President Donald Trump's tariff rollout not only bracing for the economic fallout but with confusion about exactly what rates they might face.
But at the heart of the decision-making is Trump himself — who has agitated for tough tariffs for more than 40 years.
It comes as the president recently announced a 25% tariff on imported vehicles and some auto parts among other tariffs.