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Trump is preparing new tariffs on dozens of countries, FT reports
President Donald Trump is set to impose new tariffs on dozens of countries this week, with a temporary 10% global tariff set to expire on Friday, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
The FT said the most immediate new taxes were expected to be on par with the 10% tariffs currently in force, but the administration was also working on other investigations that could give it legal authority to propose higher taxes.
Reuters could not immediately confirm the report.
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The president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque says he was subjected to “dehumanizing” treatment during more than 80 days in federal immigration detention; this treatment reminded him of the time he spent in Israeli military prisons in occupied Palestine nearly forty years ago.
“All this brought back old memories of what happened to me when I was tried in Palestine,” Salah Sarsour said in his first interview since his release last month. “The humiliation, the way the guards treated them, the way they talked to people, the way they tried to humiliate people.” He said he lost more than 30 pounds while in immigration detention.
Sarsour, who was born in the West Bank and has been a U.S. permanent resident for nearly three decades, was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in March and released after a federal judge ruled that he was likely detained in retaliation for his advocacy for Palestinian rights; The judge said the detention would most likely be unlawful.
The Trump administration continues to call for his deportation, and the U.S. secretary of state, Marco Rubio, personally signed a memo last year saying Sarsour was deportable because “his actions undermine U.S. foreign policy to combat antisemitism around the world.”
Trump is preparing new tariffs on dozens of countries, FT reports
President Donald Trump is set to impose new tariffs on dozens of countries this week, with a temporary 10% global tariff set to expire on Friday, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
The FT said the most immediate new taxes were expected to be on par with the 10% tariffs currently in force, but the administration was also working on other investigations that could give it legal authority to propose higher taxes.
Reuters could not immediately confirm the report.
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Democrats have moved to urge Donald Trump to immediately abandon the resumption of war with Iran, amid widespread concerns about mounting casualties, following the deaths of three US soldiers killed in Iranian attacks.
As U.S. forces launch a 10th consecutive wave of strikes against Iranian targets, concerns about the deaths of American service personnel threaten to complicate moves to escalate the conflict; This situation flared up again last week after Trump abandoned the June memorandum of understanding with Iran.
The Pentagon announced the names of the two soldiers killed in the attack on Muwaffaq Salti air base in Jordan on Friday. They were First Lieutenant Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Ewa Beach, Hawaii, and Private Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Carrollton, Texas.
A third member of the armed forces was killed in northern Iraq on Saturday in what US Central Command called a “controlled explosion” of unexploded ordnance. The remains of a possible fourth dead soldier were found in Jordan over the weekend.
Canada ready to ‘intensify’ US trade talks as Trump orders new tariffs
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said that Ottawa is ready to deepen trade talks with the United States after US President Donald Trump ordered new customs duties targeting Canada.
“This is the latest in a series of unilateral U.S. trade actions that began with the U.S. imposing a series of tariffs in direct violation of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement,” Carney said of Trump’s plan to impose 50% tariffs on many Canadian products.
He added that Canada has made proposals to resolve disputes and is “ready to intensify those discussions” as Washington transforms its trade ties.
The White House said Trump’s tariffs would affect a wide range of products, including wine, hockey sticks and cement. These also include goods previously protected from import duties under the United States-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) agreement.
new tariffs energy products, fish, critical minerals and potash will be excluded. Also excluded are products such as steel and aluminum that are currently subject to tariffs aimed at protecting national security.
The White House said the tariffs would go into effect within 30 days, leaving time for possible negotiations between the two countries. Embers signed Three proclamations instituting tariffs under Article 338 of the Commercial Code of 1930. Last year, several Democratic lawmakers proposed removing the section, saying Trump could use it to destabilize the economy.
A memo from the White House claims that Trump “moved to hold Canada accountable for its ongoing discrimination against and unreasonable and unequal treatment of U.S. business that burdens and disadvantages hard-working Americans.”
In his statements, Trump claims that Canada discriminates against American automobiles, alcohol, and cheese compared to other nations; but his claim is based largely on Canada’s retaliatory actions after the US president imposed tariffs on Canada under the pretext that it should do more to stop fentanyl smuggling into the US.
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Canadians across the political spectrum are united in anger against Trump. “If these tariffs continue, Canada must respond dollar-for-tariff, tariff-for-dollar,” Ontario premier Doug Ford said. Canadian prime minister Mark Carney called the tariffs a “direct violation” of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement negotiated by Trump. Canadian Conservatives called the tariffs “an unacceptable and unfair attack on Canadian workers and our businesses,” adding: “Canadians are not punching bags.” The leader of Canada’s New Democrats called them “the latest economic grenade thrown across the border by an out-of-control President who has lost touch with reality.”
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Ilya SominThe George Mason University law professor who helped mount a successful challenge to Donald Trump’s “emancipation day” tariffs points out that the president’s new 50% tariffs on Canadian imports “are based on Section 338 of the infamous 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariff legislation that severely exacerbated the Great Depression.”
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Nancy Macea Republican congressman from South Carolina, announced Monday that he is not entering the race to replace the late senator. Lindsey Graham in next month’s Republican primary.
