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• Trump threatens new tariffs on US's trade partners in latest warning
• What are reciprocal tariffs and how will they affect US consumers?

Donald Trump said he plans to unveil reciprocal tariffs on Thursday but gave no other details, Reuters reports.

Today is the big one: reciprocal tariffs," Trump wrote on his social media platform.