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🗓️ 7 August 2025
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From the BBC World Service: President Donald Trump's tariffs are now in effect, ranging from 10% to as high as 50%. We'll hear from reporters and analysts on the ground in Singapore, Delhi, and Zambia to check the mood among business owners. Plus, how far do you travel to pick up your groceries? For people living in the rural Australian settlement of Burringurrah, going shopping used to mean a 500-mile round trip, but that's changed after a new shop opened.
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0:00.0 | As US trade tariffs sweep the globe, let's take stock of what it all means. |
0:06.6 | Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service. |
0:11.3 | I'm Sarah Rogers. Good morning. |
0:13.5 | From today, President Trump's tariffs are now in effect. |
0:17.3 | They range from 10% to as high as 50% depending on where in the world you are. From Singapore, |
0:23.6 | here's the BBC's Sarangina Tuari. Many products, including those from the European Union, Japan and |
0:29.3 | South Korea now face a 15% tariff, even with trade deals struck with Washington to avert steeper |
0:36.3 | levies. Hours before the higher tariffs came in, the US president threatened to impose a 100% duty |
0:43.1 | on foreign-made computer chips. |
0:45.8 | Some of Asia's biggest chipmakers will be exempt because Mr. Trump said those with factories |
0:51.5 | in the US would not have to pay. |
0:56.5 | But experts say smaller American businesses will be affected, especially those importing chips from countries like Malaysia and the Philippines. |
1:03.8 | Serangina Tuari there. Some countries negotiated a trade deal to avoid those higher tariffs, |
1:10.0 | but some, like Switzerland, which is facing a 39% |
1:12.8 | levy, fail to get an agreement through in time. Its government will hold crisis talks on what to do |
1:18.7 | next. From today, India faces a 25% duty and it will be hit with an additional 25% in three weeks |
1:27.2 | because the country imports oil from Russia. |
1:30.3 | The BBC's Davina Gupta is in Delhi as businesses assess the impact of that announcement. |
1:35.9 | Well, I'm at a commercial district in the capital city. |
1:39.6 | Around me, there are shops which are selling garments and bags and shoes and there's a truck |
1:45.6 | which is unloading rolls of cloth. So this is the place where you would find wholesale dealers |
1:51.4 | which are also exporting these products to the US and they are extremely worried with these additional |
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