2 h. ago Britain is now among the WORST hit by Trump's tariffs after president shelved punitive levies and handed China exemptions to dodge iPhone price hikes

Downing Street signalled relief when the US president's 'Liberation Day' assault was originally mounted.

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5 h. ago SNL mocks ‘messiah’ Trump over chaotic tariffs policy with Easter

‘Some people call me the Messiah because of the mess I uh made out of the economy’

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6 h. ago Trump in driver seat on tariffs says Lutnick and will personally negotiate top 15 trade deals: Live

Electronics exemption to Trump’s tariffs are boost for high-tech companies such as Apple and Tesla

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6 h. ago John Swinney wants Scotland's economic future to be 'resilient' after Trump tariff war

The SNP leader has called for a UK Government response to "reflect changing reality" amid concern over the impact of US trade tariffs and other factors.

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6 h. ago Donald Trump’s tariff trade war wipes over £11bn off Scottish pension funds

SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: Scots retirement savings on frontline of US president's 'daft' trade war as experts confirm multi-billion pound hit.

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7 h. ago The Chinese goods Americans most rely on, from microwaves to Barbies

Donald Trump’s tariffs will hit millions of video game consoles, electric fans and toys shipped to the US from China

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8 h. ago ‘Greed, greed, and more greed’: AOC and Bernie Sanders blast Trump and Musk at largest anti

New York Democrat says Trump's 'tariff shuffle' was market manipulation for billionaire friends

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8 h. ago Why the 'very tricky' bond market that tripped up Trump could be your port in this tariffs storm... and deliver 7% returns on YOUR savings

What worrying times we are living in, geopolitically and financially. The see-sawing in equity and bond markets we have seen in recent days has yet to abate - despite Trump's partial tariff climbdown.

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10 h. ago Billions in support for businesses braced for hammering from Donald Trump's tariffs

Government body UK Export Finance the ability to extend £20 billion of support to British businesses, while the British Business Bank will be able to hand out loans of up to £2m to small businesses

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11 h. ago Trump’s auto tariffs expected to cost industry over $100 billion, with millions fewer cars sold

Vehicle sales are predicted to plummet from auto tariffs and tightened spending by Americans due to import taxes on other goods

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13 h. ago ‘There’s no way’: Experts doubt Trump team’s plan to reach 90 trade deals in three months

‘There's no way during this timeframe we're doing a comprehensive agreement with any of these countries,’ one expert said

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15 h. ago Donald Trump exempts iPhones and laptops from new tariffs in huge U

US consumers feared price of handsets could triple if passed on to them

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16 h. ago Trump rolls back some more tariffs as his ‘Liberation Day’ plans continue to face scrutiny: Live updates

Electronics exemption to Trump’s tariffs are boost for high-tech companies like Apple and Tesla, as well as China, which still remains under 145 percent levy

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16 h. ago Chris Riddell on Donald ‘Captain America’ Trump wielding his tariff shield – cartoon

Is the president really ready to do battle with China after causing global chaos and undermining the US economy?You can buy a copy of this cartoon Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Donald Trump exempts mobile phone and computers from reciprocal tariffs

The exemption also includes exclusions for other devices and components - including solar cells, flat panel TV displays, memory sticks, memory cards, semiconductors and solid-state drives used for storing data.

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18 h. ago Trump exempts phones, computers and other electronics from his tariffs on Chinese goods

The move is seen as a win for big U.S. tech companies, whose founders have donated millions to Trump’s campaign and inauguration

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18 h. ago Make America make again? Trump’s tariffs will only be manufacturing pipe dreams | John Naughton

The president’s gambit to bring the production of goods such as iPhones back to the US ignores huge supply chain complexitiesDonald Trump’s tariff strategy has at least one biblical connection: like the peace of God, it “passeth all understanding” (Philippians 4:7). Rival attempts to extract a rationale from the chaos include the idea that he is trying to devalue the dollar, or that he is seeking to “reshore” the manufacturing capacity that the US lost through decades of globalisation. My own hunch is that he just wants to show who’s the big boss around here – or as British science fiction author Charles Stross puts it, that he “expects individual nations to come to him, hat in hand, like terrified shopkeepers pleading for mercy from a mafia don”.Cue the UK’s very own Trump whisperer, Keir Starmer, who, according to Politico, plans “to put a review of online safety rules on the table in trade talks” with the US. Which, translated, means that things such as the Online Safety Act and ...

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19 h. ago Gripping story of how Trump's finance guru Scott Bessent shoved aside MAGA loyalists to save the world from economic oblivion

When Treasury Scott Bessent took the podium at the American Bankers Association on Wednesday morning he was anything but 'yippy.'

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19 h. ago Trump excludes smartphones from reciprocal tariffs after market rout

Exemption is first sign of softening of levies against China and provides a huge boost for Apple

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19 h. ago Trump exempts smartphones from reciprocal tariffs after market rout

Dispensation is first sign of softening of levies against China and provides a big boost for Apple

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