Trump’s Tariffs: The Beginning
Donald Trump’s baseline 10% tariffs come into force.
April 5, 2025
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<p>Donald Trump’s baseline 10% tariffs come into force. </p><p>Today, we’re back to tariffs. Now that the Trump administration's baseline 10% import tariffs have come into effect, what comes next for the global, US and UK economies?
Laura is joined by Americast’s Justin Webb and Stephanie Flanders, former BBC economics editor now at Bloomberg, to crunch the numbers and the politics driving them.
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