Trump threatens blanket tariff on trading partners
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Trump and his aides have repeatedly shifted their stance on tariffs since the president’s “Liberation Day” announcement.
Trump’s new tariff letters have sent shockwaves across global markets as he targets 22 countries with tough new trade threats just weeks before the August 1 deadline. From close allies like Japan and South Korea to BRICS nations like Brazil and South Africa,
"Deeply regrettable" is how Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has described US President Donald Trump's latest tariff threat - a 25% levy on Japanese goods. Tokyo, a long-time US ally, has been trying hard to avoid exactly this.
There was hope that there was light at the end of the tunnel — unfortunately it appears that light is a train,” Corpay strategist Karl Schamotta said.
President Donald Trump’s attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell are so commonplace at this point that they barely register in financial markets these days. The rapidly intensifying multi-pronged efforts by Trump’s advisers to amplify and expand on Trump’s attacks are a good reason to rethink that indifference.
Three months on, the aftershocks of Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff spree in April 2025 continue to reverberate across East Asia. The United States
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Unifor, Canada’s largest union in the private sector, representing 320,000 workers in every major area of the economy. is condemning U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest threat to impose a 35% tariff on non-CUSMA compliant Canadian goods as a reckless act of economic extortion designed to strong-arm Canada into an unfair trade deal.