Trade Wars: EU Hits Back At Trump
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4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at responses and retaliations to President Trump’s universal tariffs on steel and aluminium.
Adam is joined by Caitríona Perry, Chief Presenter BBC News in Washington, and Dharshini David, chief economics correspondent to discuss retaliatory tariffs from the EU and Canada, as well as Keir Starmer’s response.
Plus, Russia is “studying” the proposed plan for a 30-day ceasefire with Ukraine. Chris Steele, former head of the Russia Desk at MI6, discusses how the Kremlin will approach any negotiation.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.2 | Hello, we're recording this episode of newscast at 6.30 on Wednesday evening, but I'm thinking |
| 0:09.8 | back to about 7pm on Tuesday evening when we finished recording the last episode. |
| 0:14.7 | And it felt like a really momentous moment when those talks finished between the US and Ukraine |
| 0:19.9 | in Jeddah. And basically, it looked like the US and Ukraine in Jeddah, and basically it looked like the |
| 0:21.9 | US and Ukraine had a settled position. And that was kind of important and exciting to report on. |
| 0:28.2 | But then all night I was thinking, well, hang on. What really matters is then what happens with the |
| 0:32.4 | Russian reaction to that, because actually they're the other side of the table. It's not |
| 0:37.2 | US-Ukraine negotiations. It's |
| 0:39.6 | going to ultimately be negotiations involving Russia. So in the second half of today's episode of |
| 0:44.3 | newscast, we're going to speak to somebody who knows a lot about how the Russian machine operates |
| 0:48.3 | because he's dealt with them and he's also read War and Peace in the original Russian. |
| 0:53.2 | So that's what you'll hear in the second half |
| 0:55.1 | of this episode of Newscast. The first half will be about the latest on Donald Trump's |
| 0:59.9 | economic policy and the massive ripples it's having around the world. Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. |
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| 1:16.2 | Soul hurts that a miracle that does happen. Frankly, I think we need a British Trump. |
| 1:20.1 | Take me down to Downing Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. |
| 1:24.8 | Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. And we're going to start by talking about Donald Trump's trade policy, because that's the thing that's driving the world news this week. |
| 1:33.3 | So the latest we've got on Wednesday is that the US and Canada kind of backed down on some of the stuff that they were considering on Tuesday. However, Donald Trump has |
| 1:46.9 | introduced a global tariff, so a tax on imports of steel and aluminium, into the US. So that |
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