Trump warns Americans that tariffs may cause ‘pain’– US politics live

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Donald Trump acknowledged that the sweeping tariffs he has imposed on Mexico, Canada and China may cause “some pain” for Americans, but said they were necessary to curb illegal immigration and the drug trade. “The USA has major deficits with Canada, Mexico, and China (and almost all countries!), owes 36 Trillion Dollars, and we’re not going to be the ‘Stupid Country’ any longer,” Trump said on Truth Social.

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Top Democrats slammed Donald Trump’s tariff plans, warning that they will hit working families and small businesses hard. Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, led the charge by saying the president’s threatened tariffs would likely “hit Americans in their wallets”. “It would be nice if Donald Trump could start focusing on getting the prices down instead of making them go up.”

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Canada said it will take legal action under the relevant international bodies to challenge the 25% tariffs, a day after prime minster Justin Trudeau announced a wide array of concrete measures including a tit-for-tat 25% tariff phased in across C$155bn ($107bn) worth of US products.

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Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum also ordered retaliatory tariffs in response to the US announcement. Sheinbaum said her government sought dialogue rather than confrontation with the US, but that Mexico had been forced to respond in kind. Mexico has been preparing possible retaliatory tariffs on US imports, ranging from 5% to 20%, on pork, cheese, fresh produce, manufactured steel and aluminum, according to reports.

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China said it would challenge Trump’s 10% tariffs at the World Trade Organization and take unspecified countermeasures. China’s commerce ministry said the imposition of tariffs by the US “seriously violates” WTO rules, urging the US to “engage in frank dialogue and strengthen cooperation”.

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Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) has been given access to the federal payment system, exposing the sensitive personal data of millions of Americans as well as details of public contractors who compete directly with Musk’s own businesses, Ron Wyden, a Democratic senator from Oregon, said.

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Secretary of state Marco Rubio told Panama’s president, José Raúl Mulino, that Trump has determined that China’s influence threatens the Panama Canal and that immediate changes were needed or the Trump administration would take “measures necessary” to do so. Mulino, in response, said Panama’s sovereignty is “not in question”.

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The Trump administration has revoked temporary protected status (TPS) for more than 300,000 Venezuelans in the US, the New York Times reports. The federal TPS program allows for people to temporarily stay in the US if they cannot return safely to their home country. The termination means that those under TPS from Venezuela who received the protections in 2023 will lose their temporary status 60 days after the government publishes the termination notice, according to the Times.

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Dozens more staff at the US Agency for International Development (USAid) were put on leave over the weekend, according to a report, bringing the total number of senior staff at the aid agency who have been put on leave over the past week close to 100. Meanwhile, two senior USAid security officials were also put on administrative leave after refusing to hand over classified documents to Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge).

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The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, said he wanted to see “strong trading relations” with the US. Britain’s home secretary, Yvette Cooper, warned that Trump’s tariff plans could have a “really damaging impact” on the global economy and growth.

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Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s president, said her government will provide more details on the retaliatory tariffs she ordered on US goods on Monday.

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Sheinbaum, in a statement on Sunday, she will announce details on her government’s “Plan B” as she insisted that Mexico “doesn’t want confrontation”.

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“Problems are not addressed by imposing tariffs, but with talks and dialogue,” she said.

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Canada’s department of finance has published a list of Americans products imported into Canada that it will target with a 25% retaliatory tariff starting Ton uesday.

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The move comes in response to Donald Trump’s executive order on Saturday imposing a blanket 25% tariff on all Canadian goods imported into the US and 10% levies on Canadian energy.

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The list shows products that will be hit in the first round of retaliatory tariffs by Canada starting Tuesday, and mounts to 30bn Canadian dollars’ worth of goods (about $20bn).

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The impacted products include tobacco, produce, household appliances, firearms and military gear.

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Canada is also preparing for a second, broader round of retaliatory tariffs in 21 days that will target another $86bn worth of US imports.

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The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio told Panama’s president, José Raúl Mulino, in talks on Sunday that Donald Trump has determined that China’s influence threatens the Panama canal and that immediate changes were needed or the Trump administration would take “measures necessary” to do so.

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The state department, in a summary of the meeting, said Rubio had informed Mulino that Trump believed the current situation at the canal was “unacceptable and that absent immediate changes, it would require the United States to take measures necessary to protect its rights” under a US treaty with Panama.

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The Trump administration has revoked temporary protected status (TPS) for more than 300,000 Venezuelans in the US, the New York Times reports.

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The federal TPS program allows for people to temporarily stay in the US if they cannot return safely to their home country. It is available for people fleeing ongoing armed conflict, environmental disasters, or extraordinary and temporary conditions.

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Government documents obtained by the outlet read:

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After reviewing country conditions and considering whether permitting Venezuelan nationals covered by the 2023 designation is contrary to the national interest of the United States, in consultation with the appropriate U.S. government agencies, the secretary of homeland security has determined that Venezuela no longer continues to meet the conditions for the 2023 designation.

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The termination means that those under TPS from Venezuela who received the protections in 2023 will lose their temporary status 60 days after the government publishes the termination notice, according to the Times.

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It also increases the number of people without any formal immigration status in the US.

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Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) has been given access to the federal payment system, exposing the sensitive personal data of millions of Americans as well as details of public contractors who compete directly with Musk’s own businesses, an influential US senator has confirmed.

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Ron Wyden, a Democratic senator from Oregon and the ranking member of the Senate finance committee, posted on Bluesky that sources had confirmed to him that the Treasury’s highly-sensitive database had been opened up to the tech billionaire and his team.

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Donald Trump’s new treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, had granted the billionaire’s Doge team “full access to this system”.

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Wyden added that the data bonanza included “social security and medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors … All of it.”

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Confirmation of the arrangement suggests that Musk, the world’s richest person, now has entry to one of the most sensitive US government databases. The system controls more than $6tn of federal cash flow each year, with millions of Americans depending on it for social security and medicare benefits, federal salaries and more.

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The Doge personnel demanded to be let in and threatened to call US marshals to be allowed access, CNN reports.

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About 60 senior USAid staff were put on leave last week after they were accused of attempting to circumvent Donald Trump’s executive order on foreign aid.

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The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, was asked about the Trump administration’s new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China as he welcomed Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, to Chequers on Sunday.

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“It is early days. What I want to see is strong trading relations,” Starmer told reporters. He added:

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In the discussions that I have had with President Trump, that is what we have centred on, a strong trading relationship. So it is very early days.

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As we reported earlier, the UK home secretary, Yvette Cooper, warned that Trump’s tariff plans could have a “really damaging impact” on the global economy and growth.

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  US President Donald Trump said Americans may feel economic “pain” from his tariffs on key trading partners, but argued it would be “worth the price” to secure American interests, despite warnings that the measures will increase prices for consumers.

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  On Saturday, Trump signed off on threatened 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada and hit China with a 10% tariff in addition to already enacted levies. The tariffs will come into effect from midnight on Tuesday. The US President says they are being brought in to address concerns around illegal immigration and drug trafficking.

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  China subsequently said it will lodge a lawsuit with the World Trade Organization against the US over the proposals, while Canada and Mexico said they’ll bring in retaliatory tariffs.

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  Investors are bracing for falls when the markets open amid fears Trump’s tariffs will be the start of a trade war which could have negative implications on the global economy and growth.

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  The EU is bracing for Trump to announce tariffs on their goods. The US president said on Friday he would “absolutely” impose tariffs on the bloc. The European Commission and representatives from the 27 member states are expected to discuss the possibility during a meeting in Warsaw on Tuesday.

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Ed Pilkington is chief reporter for Guardian US

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Top Democrats have slammed Donald Trump’s plans to impose serious tariffs on America’s neighbors and allies, warning that they will hit working families and small businesses hard.

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Chuck Schumer, the minority leader in the US senate, led the charge by saying the president’s threatened tariffs would likely “hit Americans in their wallets”. “It would be nice if Donald Trump could start focusing on getting the prices down instead of making them go up.”

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Schumer added that the White House should set its sights on “competitors who rig the game, like China, rather than attacking our allies”.

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Trump has set in train 25% import taxes for Canada and Mexico across all products other than Canadian energy which will face a 10% tariff. China will also have 10% tariffs, with the new impositions scheduled to start on Tuesday.

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While the trio of affected countries are preparing retaliatory moves, with China saying it will lodge a lawsuit with the World Trade Organization against the US, Democratic leaders are flagging potentially devastating consequences domestically for American workers.

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Ken Martin, who was chosen to be the next chair of the Democratic National Committee on Saturday, said that blanket tariffs would cost working families while Trump would ensure that corporations get a pass.

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“He’s using American workers as pawns in his petty political games. If a president promised that they’d help my family get by, and then they did this, I’d be pretty pissed off. So, you should be pissed off,” Martin said in a statement.

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You can read the full story here:

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As we have been reporting, Canadian and Mexican exports to the US will face a 25% tariff starting on Tuesday, and there will be a 10% levy on energy resources from Canada.

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Canada, however, hopes the tariffs will not take effect on Tuesday but the Canadian public expects their government to stand firm in a trade dispute with Washington, the Canadian ambassador has said.

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“I think the Canadian people are going to expect that our government stands firm and stands up for itself,” Ambassador Kirsten Hillman told ABC News.

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“We’re not at all interested in escalating, but I think that there will be a very strong demand on our government to make sure that we stand up for the deal that we have struck with the United States.”

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The US Census Bureau listed the 2024 trade deficit in goods with Canada – which sells about 75% of its exports to the US – as $55bn.

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Justin Trudeau on Friday said Canadians could be “facing difficult times in the coming days and weeks” after Trump insisted he would impose the hefty new tariffs on goods coming across the border. In response, the Canadian prime minister unveiled matching 25% tariffs on 155bn Canadian dollars worth of US goods. He said 30bn will come into effect on Tuesday and another 125bn in three weeks.

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On Friday, the right-leaning editorial board of the Wall Street Journal newspaper criticised Trump’s proposed tariffs in a piece titled “The Dumbest Trade War in History”.

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President Trump will fire his first tariff salvo on Saturday against those notorious American adversaries . . . Mexico and Canada. They’ll get hit with a 25% border tax, while China, a real adversary, will endure 10%. This reminds us of the old Bernard Lewis joke that it’s risky to be America’s enemy but it can be fatal to be its friend.

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Leaving China aside, Mr. Trump’s justification for this economic assault on the neighbors makes no sense. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says they’ve “enabled illegal drugs to pour into America.” But drugs have flowed into the U.S. for decades, and will continue to do so as long as Americans keep using them. Neither country can stop it.

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Drugs may be an excuse since Mr. Trump has made clear he likes tariffs for their own sake. “We don’t need the products that they have,” Mr. Trump said on Thursday. “We have all the oil you need. We have all the trees you need, meaning the lumber.”

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Trump issued a response to the editorial on Sunday, saying: “The ’Tariff Lobby,’ headed by the Globalist, and always wrong, Wall Street Journal, is working hard to justify… the decades long RIPOFF OF AMERICA, both with regard to TRADE, CRIME, AND POISONOUS DRUGS.”

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Donald Trump has reiterated his desire for Canada to become America’s 51st state, something Justin Trudeau has strongly dismissed in the past.

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Trump posted this to the truth social platform under an hour ago:

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We pay hundreds of Billions of Dollars to SUBSIDIZE Canada. Why? There is no reason. We don’t need anything they have. We have unlimited Energy, should make our own Cars, and have more Lumber than we can ever use. Without this massive subsidy, Canada ceases to exist as a viable Country. Harsh but true! Therefore, Canada should become our Cherished 51st State. Much lower taxes, and far better military protection for the people of Canada — AND NO TARIFFS!

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Donald Trump has said that Americans may feel economic “pain” from his tariffs on key trading partners.

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“Will there be some pain? Yes, maybe (and maybe not!)” Trump wrote on Sunday in all capital letters on his Truth social media platform, a day after signing off on tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China.

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“But we will Make America Great Again, and it will all be worth the price that must be paid,” he added.

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Donald Trump’s moves against Mexico, Canada and China are being closely watched elsewhere, especially in the EU, which has already been threatened with similar action by the US president.

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Last month, on just his second day in office when he announced an investigation into US-China trade, Trump said: “Other countries are big abusers also, you know it’s not just China,” and added that he was also looking at trade with the EU. “We have a $350bn deficit with the European Union. They treat us very, very badly, so they’re going to be in for tariffs,” he said.

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On Sunday, asked about Trump’s weekend moves, European Central Bank policymaker Klaas Knot said he expects new tariffs will lead to higher inflation and interest rates in the U.S. that will likely weaken the euro.

n “It’s only a matter of time before the EU is targeted,” said Marchel Alexandrovich, an economist at Saltmarsh Economics in London. “In the meantime, the fact that Canada is responding and putting up tariffs against US goods is a sign of things to come and demonstrates the risks to global trade.”

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Investors are bracing for falls when the markets open.

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Trading on the brokerage IG’s weekend markets indicate shares are likely to slump on Monday, after Donald Trump’s order on Saturday to bring in sweeping tariffs this week, a move that could prompt a trade war with some of the country’s largest trading partners.

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Technology stocks are expected to be hit, with the US’s Nasdaq index on track to fall 1.2% at the start of trading on Monday, according to IG. The official futures market opens on Sunday evening.

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The Dow Jones index of 30 large US companies looked likely to fall by more than 0.7%, while the UK’s FTSE 100 – which ended last week at a record high – was on track for a 0.6% drop.

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“The surprise for markets today isn’t so much Trump’s tariff announcements – largely as flagged,” said IG analyst Tony Sycamore. “It’s that Canada and Mexico retaliated immediately and that others, ie China and the EU, may follow their lead, resulting in a sharp contraction in global trade.”

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Leaders of China, Mexico and Canada targeted in Donald Trump’s tariff plans have swiftly reacted to them, with Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau warning Americans that they would ultimately be the losers of a trade war.

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On Saturday night, the outgoing Canadian leader made a televised address announcing concrete retaliatory measures including a tit-for-tat 25% tariff phased in across C$155bn ($107bn) worth of American products. You can watch Trudeau deliver his remarks in this video:

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Over in the UK, the home secretary Yvette Cooper said that Trump’s tariff plans could have a “really damaging impact” on the global economy and growth.

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The Labour cabinet minister said the UK wanted to break down trade barriers, not put them up.

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Asked about Trump’s announcement, Cooper told the BBC: “Tariff increases really right across the world can have a really damaging impact on global growth and trade, so I don’t think it’s what anybody wants to see.”

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She added that the UK’s focus was “on building trade links and better trading relationships, and removing barriers to trade, with the US, and also with other European countries and with countries right across the world”.

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“We want to reduce the barriers to trade, make it easier for businesses,” Cooper said.

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British ministers are hoping Trump will introduce more limited tariffs focusing on particular sectors and countries, which could spare the UK from the worst of any punitive measures. It is expected that Trump will eventually impose tariffs on European countries and target those with trade deficits.

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Shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith told the BBC that the UK can avoid “some of the damage of tariffs” as he said the US is “a very strong ally” and biggest individual trading partner.

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China, the world’s second biggest economy behind the US, will challenge American tariffs through the World Trade Organization (WTO), the country’s commerce ministry said in a statement.

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It came after US President Donald Trump on Saturday ordered 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports and 10% on goods from China starting on Tuesday.

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The imposition of tariffs by the US “seriously violates” WTO rules, the ministry said, urging the US to “engage in frank dialogue and strengthen cooperation”.

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Filing a lawsuit with the WTO would be a largely symbolic move that Beijing has also taken against tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles by the EU.

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The commerce ministry also said the tariffs were “not only unhelpful in solving the US’s own problems, but also undermine normal economic and trade cooperation”. As we mentioned in the opening summary, China has said it would take countermeasures to “safeguard its own rights and interests”. It is not clear exactly what form these will take yet. But for weeks Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning has said Beijing believes there is no winner in a trade war.

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Japanese finance minister, Katsunobu Kato has expressed “deep concern” over the tariff proposal, which may spark a wider trade war as they threaten upheaval across supply chains, from energy to cars to food.

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He told Fuji TV: “We’re deeply concerned about how these tariffs could affect the world’s economy.”

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“Japan needs to scrutinise these policies and their effects, and take appropriate measures,” the minister was quoted by Fuji TV as saying.

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Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba is expected to meet Trump later this week in the US, according to reports, as Tokyo tries to strengthen ties with the new Trump administration. Japanese companies are worried that protectionist policies could dampen and disrupt global shipments.

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South Korea’s acting President Choi Sang-mok, meanwhile, has ordered government agencies to closely monitor any impact on domestic firms and the economy after Trump ordered sweeping tariffs on goods from Mexico, Canada and China, his office said.

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The tariffs are expected to affect South Korean companies running factories in these countries.

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Canada, Mexico and China have promised to hit back after the imposition of sweeping US tariffs announced by Donald Trump on Saturday.

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Trump claimed the move was in response to a “major threat” from illegal immigration and drugs. Canadian and Mexican exports to the US will face a 25% tariff starting Tuesday, although energy resources from Canada will have a lower 10% levy.

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Goods from China, which already face various rates of duties, will see an additional 10% tariff. A tariff is a domestic tax placed on goods as they enter a country, proportional to the value of the import.

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Trump invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act in imposing the tariffs, with the White House saying “the extraordinary threat posed by illegal aliens and drugs, including deadly fentanyl, constitutes a national emergency.”

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The aim is to hold all three countries “accountable to their promises of halting illegal immigration and stopping poisonous fentanyl and other drugs from flowing into our country,” the White House added.

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Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported a statement from China’s commerce ministry that it would take “corresponding countermeasures” and file a claim against Washington at the World Trade Organization.

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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that her country would impose retaliatory tariffs.

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Sheinbaum said she had told her economy minister “to implement Plan B that we have been working on, which includes tariff and non-tariff measures in defense of Mexico’s interests.”

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau – who spoke with Sheinbaum – separately said his country would hit back with 25% levies of its own on select American goods worth Can$155 billion (US$106.6 billion), with a first round on Tuesday followed by a second one in three weeks.

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“We’re certainly not looking to escalate. But we will stand up for Canada, for Canadians, for Canadian jobs,” he said, as he warned of a fracture in longstanding Canada-US ties.

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• Donald Trump acknowledged that the sweeping tariffs he has imposed on Mexico, Canada and China may cause “some pain” for Americans, but said they were necessary to curb illegal immigration and the drug trade. “The USA has major deficits with Canada, Mexico, and China (and almost all countries!), owes 36 Trillion Dollars, and we’re not going to be the ‘Stupid Country’ any longer,” Trump said on Truth Social.

• Top Democrats slammed Donald Trump’s tariff plans, warning that they will hit working families and small businesses hard. Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, led the charge by saying the president’s threatened tariffs would likely “hit Americans in their wallets”. “It would be nice if Donald Trump could start focusing on getting the prices down instead of making them go up.”

• Canada said it will take legal action under the relevant international bodies to challenge the 25% tariffs, a day after prime minster Justin Trudeau announced a wide array of concrete measures including a tit-for-tat 25% tariff phased in across C$155bn ($107bn) worth of US products.

• Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum also ordered retaliatory tariffs in response to the US announcement. Sheinbaum said her government sought dialogue rather than confrontation with the US, but that Mexico had been forced to respond in kind. Mexico has been preparing possible retaliatory tariffs on US imports, ranging from 5% to 20%, on pork, cheese, fresh produce, manufactured steel and aluminum, according to reports.

• China said it would challenge Trump’s 10% tariffs at the World Trade Organization and take unspecified countermeasures. China’s commerce ministry said the imposition of tariffs by the US “seriously violates” WTO rules, urging the US to “engage in frank dialogue and strengthen cooperation”.

• Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) has been given access to the federal payment system, exposing the sensitive personal data of millions of Americans as well as details of public contractors who compete directly with Musk’s own businesses, Ron Wyden, a Democratic senator from Oregon, said.

• Secretary of state Marco Rubio told Panama’s president, José Raúl Mulino, that Trump has determined that China’s influence threatens the Panama Canal and that immediate changes were needed or the Trump administration would take “measures necessary” to do so. Mulino, in response, said Panama’s sovereignty is “not in question”.

• The Trump administration has revoked temporary protected status (TPS) for more than 300,000 Venezuelans in the US, the New York Times reports. The federal TPS program allows for people to temporarily stay in the US if they cannot return safely to their home country. The termination means that those under TPS from Venezuela who received the protections in 2023 will lose their temporary status 60 days after the government publishes the termination notice, according to the Times.

• Dozens more staff at the US Agency for International Development (USAid) were put on leave over the weekend, according to a report, bringing the total number of senior staff at the aid agency who have been put on leave over the past week close to 100. Meanwhile, two senior USAid security officials were also put on administrative leave after refusing to hand over classified documents to Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge).

• The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, said he wanted to see “strong trading relations” with the US. Britain’s home secretary, Yvette Cooper, warned that Trump’s tariff plans could have a “really damaging impact” on the global economy and growth.

In an effort to restrict abortion access, Wyoming Republicans authored a bill that could choke access to a host of life-saving medical procedures, from chemotherapy to heart surgery.

State judge Melissa Owens overturned Wyoming’s abortion bans in November 2024, citing the state’s constitutionally guaranteed right to healthcare. The Republican state senator Cheri Steinmetz and the bill’s eight co-sponsors took issue with the ruling and sought to draw up a definition of healthcare that excludes abortion.

“The intent of [Senate File] 125 is to do no harm and go back to that Hippocratic oath and look at healthcare through that lens,” Steinmeitz said.

Steinmetz says Senate File 125 offers a new definition of healthcare in Wyoming: “No act, treatment or procedure that causes harm to the heart, respiratory system, central nervous system, brain, skeletal system, jointed or muscled appendages or organ function shall be construed as healthcare.”

The bill carves out exceptions – for example, when such a procedure is required to save the life of a pregnant woman, or if “a person has no chance of meaningful recovery” without it. Fetal personhood is still on the books in Wyoming from 2023’s overturned “Life Is a Human Right Act”, but experts interviewed said that the murkiness of the bill’s language made it unclear if it would succeed at restricting abortion access – its intended purpose.

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Meta’s chief executive, the tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, has grown increasingly close to Donald Trump since he won the 2024 election, including visiting him at Mar-a-Lago and celebrating with him at his inauguration.

Meanwhile, media personalities associated with some high-profile criticism of Trump or his Republican allies have started to leave the scene, including NBC’s former Meet the Press host Chuck Todd and CNN’s Jim Acosta, who was one of the most famous Trump-critical journalists on American television but who left his network after his show was shunted to a midnight slot.

“He’s dictating the news on his terms,” said Michael LaRosa, spokesperson for the former first lady Jill Biden. “He’s become America’s assignment editor.”

Other examples that have roiled American media are racking up. The Washington Post, owned by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, endorsed Trump’s pick for attorney general, election denier Pam Bondi, calling her “qualified” and “serious”. Before the election, it killed an endorsement of Kamala Harris. At the same time, Amazon recently paid the first lady, Melania Trump, a staggering $40m for the rights to a documentary about her life.

Meanwhile, at the Los Angeles Times, the billionaire owner Patrick Soon-Shiong recently killed an editorial criticizing Trump’s cabinet picks and has granted significant editorial influence to Trump cheerleader Scott Jennings.

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In a tumultuous first two weeks back in power in the White House, Donald Trump has targeted many familiar enemies, including one of his most passionate obsessions: the US media, whom he has frequently dubbed “enemies of the people”.

Trump’s new federal communications chair, Brendan Carr, is reported to have ordered an investigation into the sponsorship practices of taxpayer-supported NPR and PBS member stations – a media network long hated by conservatives who accuse it of a liberal slant.

At the same time, and just as concerning for some media watchers, core segments of the US media landscape – via the wealthy billionaires and gigantic corporations that own them – have seemingly caved under Trump’s pressure or apparently sought to curry favor with the new administration.

On Thursday, the New York Times reported that CBS News parent Paramount is in talks to settle a $10bn claim that it deceptively edited a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris. Paramount is currently concluding an asset sale of its Hollywood studio business.

The news of Paramount’s decision – which has reportedly caused deep upset in the CBS newsroom – comes after ABC News agreed to pay $15m to Trump to settle a defamation lawsuit over inaccurate comments by anchor George Stephanopoulos that Trump had been found civilly liable for rape.

It also follows the move by social media giant Meta to pay $25m to settle a first amendment protections claim for “impermissible censorship” when it bounced Trump from Facebook and Instagram in 2021. About $22m of that fee will be a donation to Trump’s presidential library.

Mexico to reveal details on retaliatory tariffs on US goods on Monday

Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s president, said her government will provide more details on the retaliatory tariffs she ordered on US goods on Monday.

Sheinbaum, in a statement on Sunday, she will announce details on her government’s “Plan B” as she insisted that Mexico “doesn’t want confrontation”.

“Problems are not addressed by imposing tariffs, but with talks and dialogue,” she said.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is seeking to withdraw all papers involving its researchers that are being considered for publication by external scientific journals to allow for a review by the Trump administration, Reuters reports.

The review is aimed at removing language to comply with Donald Trump’s executive order saying the federal government will only recognize two sexes, male and female.

Inside Medicine published a list of specific words targeted for removal in the communications review, including gender, transgender, LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) and non-binary.

Public health experts said the removal of such terms threatens their ability to address all kinds of medical needs as they affect different groups, including those with HIV and sexually transmitted diseases.

Carl Schmid, an advocate and executive director of the HIV+ Hepatitis Policy Institute, said:

We can’t just erase or ignore certain populations when it comes to preventing, treating or researching infectious diseases such as HIV. I certainly hope this is not the intent of these orders.

On Friday, the CDC and other US health agencies took down web pages on HIV statistics and a database tracking behaviors that increase health risks for youth, among other information, to comply with Trump administration orders.

Canada reveals list of US goods targeted for retaliatory tariffs

Canada’s department of finance has published a list of Americans products imported into Canada that it will target with a 25% retaliatory tariff starting Ton uesday.

The move comes in response to Donald Trump’s executive order on Saturday imposing a blanket 25% tariff on all Canadian goods imported into the US and 10% levies on Canadian energy.

The list shows products that will be hit in the first round of retaliatory tariffs by Canada starting Tuesday, and mounts to 30bn Canadian dollars’ worth of goods (about $20bn).

The impacted products include tobacco, produce, household appliances, firearms and military gear.

Canada is also preparing for a second, broader round of retaliatory tariffs in 21 days that will target another $86bn worth of US imports.

Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he will discuss “victory over Hamas”, countering Iran and expanding diplomatic relations with Arab countries in his meeting with Donald Trump on Tuesday.

Netanyahu said he and Trump would discuss “victory over Hamas, achieving the release of all our hostages and dealing with the Iranian terror axis in all its components, Associated Press reports.

The two leaders could “strengthen security, broaden the circle of peace and achieve a remarkable era of peace through strength,” he added.

Panama’s president, José Raúl Mulino, insisted on the sovereignty of the Panama canal after meeting with the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio.

“There is no question that the canal is operated by Panama and will continue to be so,” Mulino said.

“I don’t think there was any discrepancy on that.

“Panama’s sovereignty is not in question,” he added.

Rubio tells Panama to reduce Chinese influence canal area or face US action

The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio told Panama’s president, José Raúl Mulino, in talks on Sunday that Donald Trump has determined that China’s influence threatens the Panama canal and that immediate changes were needed or the Trump administration would take “measures necessary” to do so.

The state department, in a summary of the meeting, said Rubio had informed Mulino that Trump believed the current situation at the canal was “unacceptable and that absent immediate changes, it would require the United States to take measures necessary to protect its rights” under a US treaty with Panama.

A senior Canadian government official said US tariffs violate the obligations of its free trade agreement with Canada, Reuters reports.

Canada will pursue legal recourse and is preparing countermeasures to blunt the economic impact of the tariffs, the official said.