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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Clea Skopeliti

First Thing: Trump announces sweeping tariffs, upending decades of US trade policy

Trump announced wide-ranging new tariffs on so-called ‘liberation day’.
Trump announcing wide-ranging tariffs at a White House ceremony on so-called ‘liberation day’. Photograph: Andrew Leyden/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

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Donald Trump announced wide-ranging tariffs on the US’s major trading partners on Wednesday, a move that puts the world at risk of a global trade war and that sent stocks and the dollar tumbling.

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