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Wake Up to Money

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4.4 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

US President Trump has announced plans to impose a 25% tariff on goods made in the EU. Leanna Byrne will be hearing how the car industry in Germany is bracing for the impact.

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0:00.0	On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see.
0:04.7	Hello, I'm Brian Cox.
0:05.7	And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage.
0:08.4	In this series, we're going to have a planet off.
0:10.9	I feel like Jupiter wins.
0:12.9	And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit.
0:16.0	We're talking about your bog standard.
0:17.9	Ice, not the fancy one.
0:20.2	Science with funny bits.
0:22.0	The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage.
0:24.2	Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.
0:29.1	BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.
0:33.4	Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.
0:36.7	Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money. Donald Trump's back on the tariff war path.
0:41.6	He's said he's planning to slap a 25% charge and all goods coming from the European Union.
0:47.6	They don't accept our cars. They don't accept essentially our farm products. They use all sorts of reasons why not.
0:55.0	And we accept everything of them.
0:57.0	So what will this mean for UK exporters?
0:59.4	What will it mean for you?
1:00.4	We're going to get into it all.
1:01.5	And Sir Kier Starmor is off to Washington for his first face-to-face
1:05.5	with the Trump-controlled White House.
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