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%),
"The best estimate of the loss from tariff policy is now closer to $30 trillion."Summers added that the tariffs were the most expensive and "masochistic" the US had imposed in decades.Mohamed El-Erian"The price action in global financial markets in the immediate aftermath of the US tariff announcement points to major worries about global economic growth,
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.”
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.
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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The iPhone maker faced its biggest one-day drop in five years as investors panicked over Donald Trump's heavy tariffs on its supply chain hubs.