US President Donald Trump is unveiling US-imposed tariffs today, a day he is naming ‘Liberation Day’.
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He is expected to announce tariffs of up to 20 per cent on all imports into the US, hitting the UK’s £60 billion worth of exports, effective immediately.
The White House said that liberation day, as Trump has called it, would “fix the wrongs of the past” and “restore the golden age of America”.
The EU has said it plans to retaliate by imposing its own tariffs on US products, but Sir Keir Starmer has indicated the UK will not follow suit, instead focusing on an economic deal.
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