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Britain wins relatively favourable treatment as president accuses trading partners of looting and pillaging USUS politics – latest updatesDonald Trump hit the UK with tariffs of 10% on exports to the US as he ignited a global trade war that could wipe …
This live blog is now closedThe French government expects President Trump’s tariffs to be in the range of between 20-25%, said government spokeswoman Sophie Primas on Wednesday.“They risk being pretty powerful. People are speaking of tariffs between 20…
In today’s newsletter: The administration’s sweeping tariffs have left markets bracing for volatility – but what impact will they have on an unsteady global economy?Good morning. According to Donald Trump, it’s “liberation day”: the advent of a new tra…
Exclusive: UK willing to placate Trump with lower digital services tax rate also encompassing non-US companiesBig US technology companies have been offered a significant tax cut by Keir Starmer in return for lower tariffs from Donald Trump’s administra…
Head of European Commission says bloc would prefer to negotiate but all countermeasures are on the tableThe European Union has a “strong plan” to retaliate against tariffs imposed by Donald Trump but would prefer to negotiate, the head of the European …
Survey shows between 56% and 79% across seven countries in favour if Trump introduces ‘Liberation Day’ leviesA large majority of western Europeans support retaliatory tariffs against the US, a survey has shown, if Donald Trump introduces sweeping impor…
After myriad false starts and much fluctuation, the lingering question is not how far Trump can take his trade wars, but how far he willDonald Trump won back the White House with a promise to transform the US economy. Millions of Americans, struggling …
Government fears hit from new US trade barriers but remains hopeful of progress in ongoing negotiationsMinisters believe Britain will be hit by more tariffs when Donald Trump unveils his latest round of trade barriers on Wednesday as part of what the U…
Lincoln blockaded southern cotton, McKinley hit Britain with tariffs and Nixon abandoned the gold standard: a quick history of transatlantic economic meddlingAfter the American civil war began in 1861, President Abraham Lincoln tried to hamstring the e…
Giorgia Meloni says it is her responsibility to defend transatlantic unity in face of looming US levies Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, has called for a “reasoned” approach to an escalating tariff war between the EU and the US and repeated the …