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  • News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder.

  • President Trump is spending the weekend at Mar a Lago following a week in which global stock markets plummeted.

  • They declined further yesterday after China responded to President Trump's tariff with additional tariffs of 34% on US products.

  • Trump has pledged not to change course.

  • Here's NPR's Scott Horsley.

  • Part of the president's stated goal here is to encourage more domestic manufacturing,

  • and certainly tariffs along with low taxes and limited regulation can help to foster that.

  • But another thing factory owners look for is a stable, predictable business environment.

  • And as economist Ernie Tedeschi of the Yale Budget Lab says,

  • nothing about the last few weeks would suggest that's what they'll find in the United States right now.

  • A baseline tariff of 10% on all foreign imports to the US took effect overnight.

  • Companies that rely on cross border supply chains are relieved.

  • Mexico largely escaped President Trump's new tariffs.

  • Goods that comply with the U S. Mexico Trade agreement are exempt.

  • As Angela Kacherga, member station KTEP, reports.