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Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
Today marks the start of nothing short of a new world order.
Not my words,
but those of economists and analysts across the globe reacting to Donald Trump's sweeping new tariff regime,
which has come into effect today.
Dozens of countries, from Syria to Switzerland, are facing hefty new barriers.
Overall, the effect is to raise the US import taxes to their highest level in almost a century.
It's a day with potentially huge consequences, many of which, to be honest,
are rather difficult to work out given the complexity of so many trading relationships and manufacturing processes.
In the course of the programme,
we'll try to give you a sense of how countries and exporters are likely to feel the effects,