Trade, tax and toothbrushes

Wake Up to Money

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4.4 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump has vowed tariffs of 50% on imports of copper into the US. The announcement sent prices for the metal soaring. It’s the president’s latest salvo in a tariff war which has hit companies in all sorts of sectors. Sean Farrington hears from the co-founder of a company that makes electric toothbrushes in China and sends them to the US. We also hear from a bicycle manufacturer that exports from Indonesia and Vietnam to the US. Elsewhere, we’re at the Great Yorkshire Show to talk to farmers about inheritance tax.

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0:17.0	It's all right to the lights and foot to the floor.
0:20.0	Oh, what's's done it!
0:21.5	Drop shots!
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0:35.8	Wake Up to Money from BBC Five Live. Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.
0:39.1	Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money, 200%.
0:42.4	That could be the tariffs on pharmaceuticals going into the US.
0:45.8	So says President Trump, are we really going to get there closer to home?
0:49.8	The chair of Marks and Spencer has spoken publicly for the first time since the major cyber attack
0:54.7	that hit the retailer. We're still in the rebuild mode and we will be some time to come.
0:59.7	And we head over to Harrogate for a flavour of UK agriculture at the Great Yorkshire Show and
1:04.8	hopefully a few sound effects.
1:06.7	Wake up to Money with Sean Fararrington. Hello, good morning.
1:11.1	Wake up to Money on BBC 5 Live Wednesday, the 9th of July.
1:16.1	We're not far off, 20 to 6 on this Wednesday morning.
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