New tariffs this week will hit all countries, Trump says
"You'd start with all countries," Trump told reporters on Air Force One."Essentially all of the countries that we're talking about."The president's latest comments came despite last week suggesting he might scale back his tariff plans and impose tariffs in some cases at lower rates than countries charge the US.White House economics adviser Kevin Hassett also recently told the Fox Business channel that the tariffs would focus on 10 to 15 countries that have the worst trade deficits with the US, but did not name them.Trump sees tariffs as a way of protecting the US economy from unfair competition and as a bargaining chip for getting better trading terms for America.Over the weekend Trump's advisers echoed his view that the planned tariffs could raise trillions of dollars and help create jobs in the US.His top trade adviser, Pete Navarro, pointed to huge revenues he said the tariffs would raise. The tax on all car imports could raise $100bn (£77.3bn) on a trade worth $240bn, Mr Navarro said. All the planned tariffs could raise $600bn, about a fifth of the value of total goods imports into the US, he added.A White House fact sheet published last week suggested a 10% tariff on every import could create nearly 3 million US jobs.But concerns about a trade war are unsettling markets and creating fears of a recession in the US.On Monday morning in Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 benchmark was more than 3% lower, the the ASX 200 in Australia was down by 1.6%, and South Korea's Kospi was around 2% lower.All of this raises the stakes for all the countries attempting to strike deals with the US over its trade policies, including the UK.But other jurisdictions, such as the EU and Canada, have already said that they are preparing a range of retaliatory trade measures.Separately, Trump said a deal with TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to sell the app would be agreed before a deadline on Saturday.He set the 5 April deadline in January for short video platform to find a non-Chinese buyer or face a ban in the US on national security grounds.It had been due to take effect that month to comply with a law passed under the Biden administration.
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Telegraph
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NBC News
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