President Trump announces sweeping tariffs on US imports
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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The US President Donald Trump has announced universal 10% tariffs on all imports into the US. There will also be a 25% tariff on all foreign-made vehicles. Also: BBC team reaches quake-hit city of Mandalay in Myanmar.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Thursday the 3rd of April, these are our main stories. |
| 0:09.9 | President Trump has announced sweeping tariffs on imports to the United States, |
| 0:14.3 | starting at a baseline of 10% and rising steeply for countries with the highest trade deficits with the US. |
| 0:21.8 | A BBC reporter in Mandalay close to the epicenter of last week's earthquake in Myanmar says |
| 0:26.8 | no rescue work is being carried out on many of the collapsed buildings, |
| 0:31.4 | and hospitals don't have the staff or resources to cope. |
| 0:37.5 | Also in this podcast. |
| 0:39.2 | It is not going to hit the Earth. |
| 0:40.7 | I don't know the exact probability, but we're confident. |
| 0:43.9 | The Earth is in the clear. |
| 0:45.2 | But is the asteroid, code named 2024 YR4, |
| 0:50.5 | hurtling towards a collision with the moon? |
| 0:57.1 | President Trump has announced sweeping new tariffs |
| 1:00.1 | on goods entering the US from around the world. |
| 1:03.2 | He said the date would be remembered as Liberation Day |
| 1:06.2 | when prosperity returned to America. |
| 1:09.6 | Mr Trump spoke to an invited audience in the Rose Garden of the White |
| 1:13.1 | House in Washington, D.C. My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day, waiting for a long time. |
| 1:22.7 | April 2nd, 2025 will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn, the day |
| 1:30.8 | America's destiny was reclaimed, and the day that we began to make America wealthy again. |
| 1:38.9 | Make it wealthy, good and wealthy. |
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