President Trump announces sweeping tariffs on US imports

特朗普总统宣布对美国进口商品征收全面关税

Global News Podcast

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2025-04-03

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The US President Donald Trump has announced universal 10% tariffs on all imports into the US. There will also be a 25% tariff on all foreign-made vehicles. Also: BBC team reaches quake-hit city of Mandalay in Myanmar.
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  • This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Thursday, the 3rd of April, these are our main stories.

  • President Trump has announced sweeping tariffs on imports to the United States,

  • starting at a baseline of 10% and rising steeply for countries with the highest trade deficit with the US.

  • A BBC reporter in Mandalay, close to the epicentre of last week's earthquake in Myanmar,

  • says no rescue work is being carried out on many of the collapsed buildings,

  • and hospitals don't have the staff or resources to cope.

  • Also in this podcast.

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  • But is the asteroid, code named 2024YR4, hurtling towards a collision with the moon?

  • President Trump has announced sweeping new tariffs on goods entering the US from around the world.

  • He said the date would be remembered as Liberation Day when prosperity returned to America.

  • Mr.

  • Trump spoke to an invited audience in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C.

  • My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day, waiting for a long time.

  • April 2nd, 2025 will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn,

  • the day America's destiny was reclaimed, and the day that we began to make America wealthy again.

  • Make it wealthy, good and wealthy.

  • Well, President Trump said American taxpayers had been what he called pillaged by foreigners for more than 50 years.