Trump announces sweeping new tariffs, upending decades of US trade policy
by Lauren Aratani in New York and David Smith in Wash from US news | The Guardian on (#6WBAG)
President to impose reciprocal' tariffs on largest trading partners and says new charges will bring about golden age'
Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on some of its largest trading partners on Wednesday, upending decades of US trade policy and threatening to unleash a global trade war on what he has called liberation day".
Trump said he will impose a 10% universal tariff on all imported foreign goods in addition to reciprocal tariffs" on a few dozen countries, charging additional duties onto countries that Trump claims have cheated" America.
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