Post-haste: Will Trump's tariff letters help secure trade deals?

火速:特朗普的关税信件能否助其确保贸易协议?

World Business Report

2025-07-08

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The reaction to President Trump's letters promising steep tariffs from next month. We'll hear how businesses in Japan and Bangladesh are preparing. Why China's dominance in rare earth minerals comes at the cost of polluted water and contaminated soil? And one of the world's biggest professional gaming events, the E-sports World Cup, gets underway in Saudi Arabia. You can contact us on WhatsApp or send us a voicenote: +44 330 678 3033.
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  • President Trump is threatening some of the US's trading partners with tariffs of between 25 and 40%.

  • We'll look at whether we'll see more trade deals done this month and get reaction from businesses in Bangladesh and Japan.

  • We cannot really change the selling price, but due to the tariff that will be imposed,

  • the importer in the United States will be paying the tariff.

  • China has a tight grip on the supply of rare earth minerals, but at what environmental cost?

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  • quite a few countries have said they'll keep talking to the United States about the tariffs that the Trump administration is planning to impose on their exports after the president wrote to several,