Trump, tariffs and Liberation Day
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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 ...
The Economist |
From just 2.3% in 2024, the average American tariff on imports is now expected to rise immediately to about 30%—where it was in the late 1800s.
Yahoo |
The 10 percent baseline goes into effect April 5.
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President Donald Trump is scheduled to announce significant tariffs on other countries in a speech Wednesday afternoon at the White House.
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.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will speak to reporters Tuesday afternoon, a day before President Trump’s tariffs on the Canada, Mexico, China and certain product imports, are
Aides struggled to satisfy the president’s competing priorities before settling on a plan to both raise revenue and boost corporate onshoring.