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‘No exemptions, no exceptions’: Trump slaps 25% tariffs on steel, aluminium

Workers monitor steel being melted at 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,649 degrees Celsius) in an electric arc furnace (EAF) at the NLMK Indiana steel mill in Portage, Indiana, on March 15, 2018 [Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP]

United States President Donald Trump has slapped 25 percent tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports in his latest push to reshape an international trading order that he claims is unfairly stacked against US manufacturers and workers.

Speaking from the White House as he announced his latest trade salvo on Monday, Trump said that US industry has been “pummelled by both friend and foe alike”.

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