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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Callum Jones in New York

Trump’s tariff threat reruns are as fierce as they are fleeting

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A shopper walks a dog by an Apple store at the Westfield UTC shopping center on 1 May in San Diego, California. Photograph: Kevin Carter/Getty Images

Here we go again. Donald Trump has unleashed a spate of tariff storms over the past four months. Each has left businesses, in the US and across the world, clearing up the damage – and struggling to see what happens next.

The US president conjured up two fresh hurricanes on Friday, threatening the EU, his country’s largest collective trading partner, and Apple, one of his country’s largest companies, with sweeping duties.

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