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🗓️ 11 April 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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0:00.0 | The wild week on Wall Street ended on a higher note today. |
0:04.2 | The Dow Jones Industrial average climbed back above 40,000, while the NASDAQ shot up by more than 2%. |
0:10.1 | The S&P 500 rallied as well by almost 2%. |
0:13.9 | For a closer look now at how these tariffs are already impacting the U.S. and global economies, |
0:19.2 | were joined tonight by Mary Lovely, a senior fellow |
0:22.3 | who studies tariffs at the nonpartisan Peterson Institute for International Economics. |
0:27.4 | Mary, thanks for being here. |
0:28.5 | It's my pleasure. |
0:29.2 | So let's just begin with the latest retaliation from Beijing, raising tariffs on U.S. imports |
0:33.9 | to 125 percent. |
0:36.5 | What companies and industries here will feel that, and what |
0:40.3 | are the potential ripple effects of that? |
0:42.3 | Well, obviously, it's going to be our export sectors and our exporters. |
0:47.3 | Agriculture, soybeans, the chicken industry, we sell a lot of chicken to China. |
0:55.5 | Advanced machinery will feel it. |
0:57.8 | So all of these exports are now reaching prohibitive rates, which means that they'll have to turn to somebody else, just as they did during the first trade war. |
1:08.6 | But at these much, much higher rates, the first time rates |
1:12.0 | went up to maximum about 25 percent on some goods, and now, as you heard today, were over |
1:17.3 | 100 percent. |
1:18.3 | I mean, for like the semiconductor business, for example, we know the tariff hurt that industry |
1:24.0 | as well, targets that industry. China, my understanding, has imports some $10 billion |
1:28.8 | in semiconductor chips from the US every year. |
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