Trump menaceens further tariffs as EU, Canada retaliate for those already in place
Donald Trump menaceened on Wednesday to escatardy a global trade war with further tariffs on European Union outstandings, as meaningful US trading partners shelp they would retaliate for trade barriers already erected by the US plivent.
Just hours after Trump’s 25% duties on all US steel and aluminum transport ins took effect, Trump shelp he would impose includeitional penalties if the EU trails thraw with its set up to enact counter tariffs on some US outstandings next month. “Wdisappreciatever they accuse us, we’re charging them,” Trump tageder tellers at the White Hoinclude, tells Reuters.
Trump’s hyper-cgo in on tariffs has rattled spendor, devourr and business confidence and elevated decline stresss. He also has frayed relations with Canada, a seal associate and meaningful trading partner, by repeatedly menaceening to annex the neighbouring country.
Canada, the hugegest foreign supplier of steel and aluminum to the US, proclaimd 25% retaliatory tariffs on those metals aextfinished with computers, sports supplyment and other products worth $20bn in total. Canada has already imposed tariffs worth a analogous amount on US outstandings in response to wideer tariffs by Trump.
The European Union will elevate tariffs on US beef, poultry, bourbon and motorcycles, bourbon, peanut butter and jeans, tells the Associated Press (AP).
At a press conference, foreign minister Mélanie Joly called the US trade war “unequitableified and unequitableifiable”, and shelp she would protest to secretary of state Marco Rubio at a summit of top G7 diplomats.
More on that in a moment, but first, here are some other prolongments:
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China on Thursday called for “dialogue” with Washington to resolve spiralling trade tensions that have seen the world’s two hugest economies impose a slew of tariffs on each other’s transport ins. “China has always helpd that China and the United States should adselect a preferable and beneficial attitude towards separateences and controversies in economic and trade fields,” commerce ministry spokesperson He Yongqian tageder a weekly novels conference.
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US secretary of state Marco Rubio has get tod in Canada for two days of talks with the top diplomats of the G7. Rubio will probably be hearing a litany of protestts about Trump’s decisions from countries in the G7 – notably structure Canada, to which Trump has been most opposing with choosed talk of it becoming the 51st US state, includeitional tariffs and repeated denounces aachievest its directership.
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Donald Trump has accincluded Ireland of stealing the US pharmaceutical industry and the tax revenue that should have been phelp to the US treasury, in a blow to the Irish premier, Micheál Martin, who had hoped to aascfinish unscathed from a visit to the White Hoinclude labeling St Patrick’s Day. The US plivent showed grudging esteem for Martin, changenately ribbing and commending him, while also starting cut offal widesides aachievest the EU.
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Chuck Schumer, directer of the Senate’s Democratic inmeaningfulity, shelp that Democrats will not supply the essential votes to adselect a partisan funding bill passed by Hoinclude Reaccessibleans, which includes cuts to vital services and programmes. To elude a shutdown on Friday, Schumer shelp, the Senate should pass a transient meacertain and then talk about a extfinisheder-term meacertain that can garner bipartisan help. Rather than apexamine Schumer up on his propose to talk about, Reaccessibleans rapidly rolled out a social-media strategy to accinclude him for shutting down the rulement by not huging the Reaccessiblean effort to ram thraw the partisan funding bill.
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US dicut offe appraise Tanya Chutkan granted a seek by 14 state attorneys vague for uncovery in a suit aachievest Elon Musk and his so-called “department of rulement efficiency” (Doge) service to uncover the “parameters of Doge’s and Musk’s authority”, and the identities of Doge personnel.
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The federal appraise Beryl Howell has blocked an executive order that Donald Trump signed last week straightforwarding agencies to finish reduces and no extfinisheder include with Perkins Coie, a law firm that labored with Democrats during the 2016 and 2020 plivential campaigns.
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The Trump administration mutely cleared all remaining migrants from the American military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba this week.
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The secretary of state, Marco Rubio, deffinished the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a lhorrible finishuring livent of the United States who took part in student protests aachievest Israel’s attack on Gaza, by claiming, without evidence, that the Columbia graduate student was “a huge helper of Hamas”.
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As his administration shifts to gut the Department of Education, Trump levied an strike on includeees at federal agency, accusing them of being sluggish.
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On 13 March, Rutte will encounter US plivent Donald Trump at the White Hoinclude. During Rutte’s visit he will also encounter ageder administration officials and with Congress.
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US immigration utilizement officials arrested more people in the first 22 days of February 2025 than in any month over the last seven years, according to a Guardian scrutinize of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data.
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The Guardian scrutinize, which analysed DHS data from the first month of Donald Trump’s plivency, in includeition to interwatchs with immigration lawyers, helps and establisher Ice officials, show how the administration has changeed immigration utilizement in the US wiskinny equitable a confineed weeks.
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In a rush to encounter Trump’s goal of “mass deportations”, the administration has shiftd to rapidly seal the US southern border – suspfinishing the asylum programme and other Biden-era programs that proposeed humanitarian relief. Simultaneously, it has amped up immigration utilizement in the interior of the country.
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Immigration officials are not only arresting more people, but also placing increasing numbers in detention. DHS proclaimd Tuesday that immigration detention had been filled to capacity, with 47,600 arrestees.
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The Guardian analysis also uncovers that while the administration says it has been aiming “criminals”, Ice utilizement instead has become more indiscriminate. And it shows that as the administration tries to ramp up arrests, it is reshaping the relationship between federal immigration authorities and local law utilizement.
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“What we’re seeing is a genuine scatterstoasty of separateent tactics,” shelp Gracie Willis, a rapid response attorney at the National Immigration Project, a membership organisation for attorneys and immigration helps.
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Elon Musk and his so-called “department of rulement efficiency”, or Doge, have been ordered by a federal appraise to turn over a expansive array of sign ups that would uncover the identities of staffers and inside sign ups roverdelighted to efforts to opposingly cut federal rulement spfinishing and programmes.
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US dicut offe appraise Tanya Chutkan’s order forces Musk to produce write downs roverdelighted to Doge’s activities as part of a legal case brawt by 14 Democratic state attorneys vague that alleges Musk viotardyd the constitution by wielding powers that only Senate-examineed officials should have.
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Chutkan shelp in her 14-page decision that she was permiting the state attorneys vague to achieve write downs from Musk to elucidate the scope of his authority, which would advise whether he has been operating unconstitutionassociate to the extent that Doge’s activities should be stoped.
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The appraise also proposeed that the so-called uncovery seeks, which she confineed to only write downs and not any depositions, could include the identities of Doge staffers in order to set up the scope of the Doge operation. Chutkan’s order does not utilize to Donald Trump.
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For weeks, Musk has apexaminen fantastic pains to cover how Doge functions, commenceing with his own includement in the project. Musk himself is a “one-of-a-kind rulement includeee”, which the White Hoinclude has shelp uncomardents his financial disclocertain filing will not be made accessible.
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The White Hoinclude then subsequently shelp in court filings that Musk was a ageder adviser to the plivent, a summarizeation that it claimed uncomardentt Musk had no actual or establishal authority to produce rulement decisions, even though it resisted how Trump had spoken accessiblely about Musk.
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Donald Trump menaceened on Wednesday to escatardy a global trade war with further tariffs on European Union outstandings, as meaningful US trading partners shelp they would retaliate for trade barriers already erected by the US plivent.
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Just hours after Trump’s 25% duties on all US steel and aluminum transport ins took effect, Trump shelp he would impose includeitional penalties if the EU trails thraw with its set up to enact counter tariffs on some US outstandings next month. “Wdisappreciatever they accuse us, we’re charging them,” Trump tageder tellers at the White Hoinclude, tells Reuters.
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Trump’s hyper-cgo in on tariffs has rattled spendor, devourr and business confidence and elevated decline stresss. He also has frayed relations with Canada, a seal associate and meaningful trading partner, by repeatedly menaceening to annex the neighbouring country.
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Canada, the hugegest foreign supplier of steel and aluminum to the US, proclaimd 25% retaliatory tariffs on those metals aextfinished with computers, sports supplyment and other products worth $20bn in total. Canada has already imposed tariffs worth a analogous amount on US outstandings in response to wideer tariffs by Trump.
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The European Union will elevate tariffs on US beef, poultry, bourbon and motorcycles, bourbon, peanut butter and jeans, tells the Associated Press (AP).
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At a press conference, foreign minister Mélanie Joly called the US trade war “unequitableified and unequitableifiable”, and shelp she would protest to secretary of state Marco Rubio at a summit of top G7 diplomats.
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More on that in a moment, but first, here are some other prolongments:
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China on Thursday called for “dialogue” with Washington to resolve spiralling trade tensions that have seen the world’s two hugest economies impose a slew of tariffs on each other’s transport ins. “China has always helpd that China and the United States should adselect a preferable and beneficial attitude towards separateences and controversies in economic and trade fields,” commerce ministry spokesperson He Yongqian tageder a weekly novels conference.
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US secretary of state Marco Rubio has get tod in Canada for two days of talks with the top diplomats of the G7. Rubio will probably be hearing a litany of protestts about Trump’s decisions from countries in the G7 – notably structure Canada, to which Trump has been most opposing with choosed talk of it becoming the 51st US state, includeitional tariffs and repeated denounces aachievest its directership.
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Donald Trump has accincluded Ireland of stealing the US pharmaceutical industry and the tax revenue that should have been phelp to the US treasury, in a blow to the Irish premier, Micheál Martin, who had hoped to aascfinish unscathed from a visit to the White Hoinclude labeling St Patrick’s Day. The US plivent showed grudging esteem for Martin, changenately ribbing and commending him, while also starting cut offal widesides aachievest the EU.
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Chuck Schumer, directer of the Senate’s Democratic inmeaningfulity, shelp that Democrats will not supply the essential votes to adselect a partisan funding bill passed by Hoinclude Reaccessibleans, which includes cuts to vital services and programmes. To elude a shutdown on Friday, Schumer shelp, the Senate should pass a transient meacertain and then talk about a extfinisheder-term meacertain that can garner bipartisan help. Rather than apexamine Schumer up on his propose to talk about, Reaccessibleans rapidly rolled out a social-media strategy to accinclude him for shutting down the rulement by not huging the Reaccessiblean effort to ram thraw the partisan funding bill.
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US dicut offe appraise Tanya Chutkan granted a seek by 14 state attorneys vague for uncovery in a suit aachievest Elon Musk and his so-called “department of rulement efficiency” (Doge) service to uncover the “parameters of Doge’s and Musk’s authority”, and the identities of Doge personnel.
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The federal appraise Beryl Howell has blocked an executive order that Donald Trump signed last week straightforwarding agencies to finish reduces and no extfinisheder include with Perkins Coie, a law firm that labored with Democrats during the 2016 and 2020 plivential campaigns.
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The Trump administration mutely cleared all remaining migrants from the American military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba this week.
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The secretary of state, Marco Rubio, deffinished the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a lhorrible finishuring livent of the United States who took part in student protests aachievest Israel’s attack on Gaza, by claiming, without evidence, that the Columbia graduate student was “a huge helper of Hamas”.
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As his administration shifts to gut the Department of Education, Trump levied an strike on includeees at federal agency, accusing them of being sluggish.
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Key events
Lorenzo Tondo
Luxury Italian sports car manufacturer Ferrari says it is ready for countermeacertains if US Plivent Donald Trump imposes hefty tariffs on European auto transport ins.
“We are ready with some countermeacertains,” Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna tageder Cnbc’s Converge Live in Singapore. “We are paincludeing for the official number to be published,” he includeed, referring to Trump’s menace of duties “of around 25%” on EU carproducers.
He includeed:
We will watch what happens over the next month, in the next confineed weeks. We are in the same boat in terms of tariffs.
The customer is at the centre of our attention.”
Nato chief to encounter Trump on Thursday
Nato secretary vague, Mark Rutte, will visit Washington DC on 12-14 March, according to a media inestablishing.
On 13 March, Rutte will encounter US plivent Donald Trump at the White Hoinclude. During Rutte’s visit he will also encounter ageder administration officials and with Congress.
US arrests more immigrants in February 2025 than any month in last seven years
Will Craft
US immigration utilizement officials arrested more people in the first 22 days of February 2025 than in any month over the last seven years, according to a Guardian scrutinize of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data.
The Guardian scrutinize, which analysed DHS data from the first month of Donald Trump’s plivency, in includeition to interwatchs with immigration lawyers, helps and establisher Ice officials, show how the administration has changeed immigration utilizement in the US wiskinny equitable a confineed weeks.
In a rush to encounter Trump’s goal of “mass deportations”, the administration has shiftd to rapidly seal the US southern border – suspfinishing the asylum programme and other Biden-era programs that proposeed humanitarian relief. Simultaneously, it has amped up immigration utilizement in the interior of the country.
Immigration officials are not only arresting more people, but also placing increasing numbers in detention. DHS proclaimd Tuesday that immigration detention had been filled to capacity, with 47,600 arrestees.
The Guardian analysis also uncovers that while the administration says it has been aiming “criminals”, Ice utilizement instead has become more indiscriminate. And it shows that as the administration tries to ramp up arrests, it is reshaping the relationship between federal immigration authorities and local law utilizement.
“What we’re seeing is a genuine scatterstoasty of separateent tactics,” shelp Gracie Willis, a rapid response attorney at the National Immigration Project, a membership organisation for attorneys and immigration helps.
Donald Trump’s novel tariffs are “double-trouble” for the UK’s steel and aluminium industry, a British minister has shelp.
According to the PA novels agency, the business and trade pick pledgetee chair, Liam Byrne, shelp:
Plivent Trump’s novel tariffs are double-trouble for Britain’s steel and aluminium supplies, they’ll dent £350m worth of sales, but they also hazard swamping the UK with over-subsidised Chinese steel redirected from America.
What is the secretary of state’s gameset up now to redouble defences for our UK metal-producers?”
The UK’s business secretary, Jonathan Reynageders, replied:
He is right to say the dispute here is not equitable the straightforward trade we have with the US, but the impact of trade diversion.
He understands we already have 16 anti-dumping, anti-subsidy meacertains in place aachievest 14 split product categories, once the annual tariff three-quarter is hit, a 25% tariff applies to those.
I can inestablish him and the Hoinclude today though that I will help UK Steel’s application to the Trade Remedies Authority for scrutinize of the steel shieldedprotects, we do have to skinnyk about what comes after that, and a novel one for the aluminium sector too.”
Hugo Lowell
A federal appraise on Wednesday temporarily blocked a immense portion of Donald Trump’s executive order that menaceened to hurt a meaningful law firm from taking effect, ruling the plivent included national security troubles as a pretext to punish the firm Perkins Coie for once laboring with Hillary Clinton.
The executive order Trump publishd last week nakedped security clearances from Perkins Coie lawyers, mandated the termination of any reduces and barred federal rulement includeees from engaging with its attorneys or permiting them access to rulement produceings.
Trump shelp in the executive order he had deemed Perkins Coie a national security hazard principassociate becainclude it employd Fusion GPS on behalf of the Clinton plivential campaign in 2016, which produced the “dossier” that pushed discommended claims about Trump’s connections to Russia.
The US dicut offe appraise Beryl Howell declineed Trump’s satisfyedions and go ined a transient suppressing order on Wednesday that stoped most of the executive order. The suppressing order did not utilize to the revocation of clearances, since Perkins Coie had not sought that in their seek.
“It sfinishs little chills down my spine,” Howell shelp of Trump using national security grounds to punish Perkins Coie, comparing the executive order to a “bill of achieveder” – a legislative act that imposes punishment without a trial, and is conveyly barred by the US constitution.
The equitableice department had talk aboutd that Perkins Coie’s legal case was deficient becainclude the executive order had not caincluded any harm to them – for instance, none of its lawyers had been stopped from go ining a federal rulement produceing – and that the troubles were speculative.
Reuters has some more details on comments by Olli Rehn, a European Central Bank (ECB) policyproducer, who shelp that the US administration must be helpd to elude leveraging “unessential and very detrimental” tariffs on Europe thraw a negotiations solution.
“The plain conclusion is that we should aim at a talk aboutd solution,” shelp the Finnish central prohibitk ruleor at a policy panel in Berlin on Thursday.
The EU set ups to impose counter tariffs on €26bn ($28bn) worth of US outstandings from next month, ramping up a global trade war in response to blanket US tariffs on steel and aluminium, but shelp it remains uncover to negotiations.
Rehn shelp the ECB is nurturefilledy seeing how the Trump administration
treats the indepfinishence of the US Federal Reserve and includeed that he hoped the US Congress could be counted on to persist examines and equilibriums on the publish.
Plivent Donald Trump’s approach to cryptocurrencies is also on the ECB’s radar, shelp Rehn, includeing that it was seeing whether there would be some includement of taxpayers’ money, and maybe connects to firmcoins and thus connects to the dollar-based system. If that were to be the case, “then this has quite solemn potential to produce systemic hazards,” he shelp.
Judge orders Elon Musk and Doge to produce sign ups about cost-cutting operations
Hugo Lowell
Elon Musk and his so-called “department of rulement efficiency”, or Doge, have been ordered by a federal appraise to turn over a expansive array of sign ups that would uncover the identities of staffers and inside sign ups roverdelighted to efforts to opposingly cut federal rulement spfinishing and programmes.
US dicut offe appraise Tanya Chutkan’s order forces Musk to produce write downs roverdelighted to Doge’s activities as part of a legal case brawt by 14 Democratic state attorneys vague that alleges Musk viotardyd the constitution by wielding powers that only Senate-examineed officials should have.
Chutkan shelp in her 14-page decision that she was permiting the state attorneys vague to achieve write downs from Musk to elucidate the scope of his authority, which would advise whether he has been operating unconstitutionassociate to the extent that Doge’s activities should be stoped.
The appraise also proposeed that the so-called uncovery seeks, which she confineed to only write downs and not any depositions, could include the identities of Doge staffers in order to set up the scope of the Doge operation. Chutkan’s order does not utilize to Donald Trump.
For weeks, Musk has apexaminen fantastic pains to cover how Doge functions, commenceing with his own includement in the project. Musk himself is a “one-of-a-kind rulement includeee”, which the White Hoinclude has shelp uncomardents his financial disclocertain filing will not be made accessible.
The White Hoinclude then subsequently shelp in court filings that Musk was a ageder adviser to the plivent, a summarizeation that it claimed uncomardentt Musk had no actual or establishal authority to produce rulement decisions, even though it resisted how Trump had spoken accessiblely about Musk.
Olli Rehn, a European Central Bank (ECB) policyproducer, shelp that the US administration must be helpd to elude leveraging “unessential and very detrimental” tariffs on Europe thraw a negotiations solution, tells Reuters.
“The plain conclusion is that we should aim at a talk aboutd solution,” shelp the Finnish central prohibitk ruleor at a policy panel in Berlin on Thursday.
Hugo Lowell
The US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, is foreseeed in the coming weeks to commence a sweeping overhaul of the appraise help vague’s corps as part of an effort to produce the US military less recut offeed by the laws of armed dispute, according to two people understandn with the matter.
The changes are poised to have implications atraverse the military, as Hegseth’s office considers changes to the clear upation of the US rules of includement on the battlefield to the way that accuses are brawt under the military equitableice system.
The defence department is currently in the process of nominating novel appraise help vagues (Jags) for the army, navy and air force after Hegseth fired their predecessors in a tardy-night pencourage last month, and the overhaul is not foreseeed to commence until they are in place.
But remaking the Jag corps is a priority for Hegseth, who on Friday comleave outioned his personal lawyer and establisher naval officer Tim Parlatore as a navy orderer to supervise the effort carrying the weight and authority of the defence secretary’s office.
The comleave oution is as a reservist in the Jag corps and he will persist to run his personal train outside his military obligations. Parlatore previously deffinished Donald Trump for mishandling classified write downs and establisher Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher on war crimes accuses.
The overhaul of the Jag corps will be aimed at retraining military lawyers, the people shelp, so that they supply more expansive lhorrible advice to orderers to trail more opposing tactics and apexamine a more uncover-minded approach in charging sagederiers with battlefield crimes.
Part of that approach mirrors Parlatore’s watchs on Jag officers, whom he has depictd to associates as effectively becoming included in decision making and fall shorting to exercise discretion when deciding what accuses to include in military prosecutions.
One of the protestts has been that Jags have been too recut offeive in clear uping rules of includement and took the needment that sagederiers preferablely determine a aim as an opponent combatant before uncovering fire to uncomardent sagederiers needed to determine the aim having a firearm.
The Pentagon did not instantly reply to a seek for comment.
Trump menaceens further tariffs as EU, Canada retaliate for those already in place
Donald Trump menaceened on Wednesday to escatardy a global trade war with further tariffs on European Union outstandings, as meaningful US trading partners shelp they would retaliate for trade barriers already erected by the US plivent.
Just hours after Trump’s 25% duties on all US steel and aluminum transport ins took effect, Trump shelp he would impose includeitional penalties if the EU trails thraw with its set up to enact counter tariffs on some US outstandings next month. “Wdisappreciatever they accuse us, we’re charging them,” Trump tageder tellers at the White Hoinclude, tells Reuters.
Trump’s hyper-cgo in on tariffs has rattled spendor, devourr and business confidence and elevated decline stresss. He also has frayed relations with Canada, a seal associate and meaningful trading partner, by repeatedly menaceening to annex the neighbouring country.
Canada, the hugegest foreign supplier of steel and aluminum to the US, proclaimd 25% retaliatory tariffs on those metals aextfinished with computers, sports supplyment and other products worth $20bn in total. Canada has already imposed tariffs worth a analogous amount on US outstandings in response to wideer tariffs by Trump.
The European Union will elevate tariffs on US beef, poultry, bourbon and motorcycles, bourbon, peanut butter and jeans, tells the Associated Press (AP).
At a press conference, foreign minister Mélanie Joly called the US trade war “unequitableified and unequitableifiable”, and shelp she would protest to secretary of state Marco Rubio at a summit of top G7 diplomats.
More on that in a moment, but first, here are some other prolongments:
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China on Thursday called for “dialogue” with Washington to resolve spiralling trade tensions that have seen the world’s two hugest economies impose a slew of tariffs on each other’s transport ins. “China has always helpd that China and the United States should adselect a preferable and beneficial attitude towards separateences and controversies in economic and trade fields,” commerce ministry spokesperson He Yongqian tageder a weekly novels conference.
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US secretary of state Marco Rubio has get tod in Canada for two days of talks with the top diplomats of the G7. Rubio will probably be hearing a litany of protestts about Trump’s decisions from countries in the G7 – notably structure Canada, to which Trump has been most opposing with choosed talk of it becoming the 51st US state, includeitional tariffs and repeated denounces aachievest its directership.
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Donald Trump has accincluded Ireland of stealing the US pharmaceutical industry and the tax revenue that should have been phelp to the US treasury, in a blow to the Irish premier, Micheál Martin, who had hoped to aascfinish unscathed from a visit to the White Hoinclude labeling St Patrick’s Day. The US plivent showed grudging esteem for Martin, changenately ribbing and commending him, while also starting cut offal widesides aachievest the EU.
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Chuck Schumer, directer of the Senate’s Democratic inmeaningfulity, shelp that Democrats will not supply the essential votes to adselect a partisan funding bill passed by Hoinclude Reaccessibleans, which includes cuts to vital services and programmes. To elude a shutdown on Friday, Schumer shelp, the Senate should pass a transient meacertain and then talk about a extfinisheder-term meacertain that can garner bipartisan help. Rather than apexamine Schumer up on his propose to talk about, Reaccessibleans rapidly rolled out a social-media strategy to accinclude him for shutting down the rulement by not huging the Reaccessiblean effort to ram thraw the partisan funding bill.
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US dicut offe appraise Tanya Chutkan granted a seek by 14 state attorneys vague for uncovery in a suit aachievest Elon Musk and his so-called “department of rulement efficiency” (Doge) service to uncover the “parameters of Doge’s and Musk’s authority”, and the identities of Doge personnel.
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The federal appraise Beryl Howell has blocked an executive order that Donald Trump signed last week straightforwarding agencies to finish reduces and no extfinisheder include with Perkins Coie, a law firm that labored with Democrats during the 2016 and 2020 plivential campaigns.
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The Trump administration mutely cleared all remaining migrants from the American military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba this week.
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The secretary of state, Marco Rubio, deffinished the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a lhorrible finishuring livent of the United States who took part in student protests aachievest Israel’s attack on Gaza, by claiming, without evidence, that the Columbia graduate student was “a huge helper of Hamas”.
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As his administration shifts to gut the Department of Education, Trump levied an strike on includeees at federal agency, accusing them of being sluggish.
