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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear.

Staring down a potential global economic meltdown, President Donald Trump pushed the pause button today,

giving most countries a 90-day breather from his new tariffs,

though the administration is raising the tax rate on Chinese imports to 125%. MPR. Scott Horsley reports the president's

tariff plan is whipsod companies and consumers alike. It's kind of a hangover-inducing cocktail

of relief on the one hand and disbelief that hundreds of billions of dollars worth of import taxes

can be added and then subtracted on the president's whim. In just the last week,

we've gone from very low tariffs on most countries to tariffs of up to 50 percent and now back

down to 10 percent. You know, it's hard if you're a business person or just someone shopping

for groceries to know how to behave in this environment.

Baseline tariffs of 10 percent on most countries will stay in effect.

While Canada and Mexico are not subject to that tariff, they are subject to other tariffs on

some goods.

Tariffs on steel and aluminum appear unchanged.

Tech companies have pledged hundreds of billions of dollars to build data centers around

the U.S. Mississippi has 20 billion in data center projects underway.

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