Trump's new tariffs set to take effect this week, but much is uncertain
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🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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This episode: political correspondent Ashley Lopez, White House correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben, and chief economics correspondent Scott Horsley.
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| 1:06.9 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Ashley Lopez. I cover politics. And I'm Danielle Kurtzleben. I cover the White House. |
| 1:13.8 | We also have NPR chief economics correspondent, Scott Horsley here. Welcome back, Scott. |
| 1:18.9 | Great with you. And today on the show, we're talking about the latest tariff news as well as some political fallout on the economic front. Danielle, let's start with a quick |
| 1:27.8 | update on where we stand with tariffs. What tariffs are due to take effect this week and what's still |
| 1:33.8 | sort of like uncertain at this point? Let me just try to run through it all. First of all, what will |
| 1:37.9 | take effect? First this week, that set of country by country tariffs that Trump signed last Friday |
| 1:43.7 | are going to take effect later this week. |
| 1:46.1 | Now, these are the tariffs he first announced on April 2nd, that day that he called Liberation Day. |
| 1:51.1 | He had a big White House Rose Garden celebration with that big chart he held up. |
| 1:56.1 | Well, then he delayed those. He delayed them again to August 1st. |
| 1:59.2 | He wrote some letters to countries saying, |
| 2:01.1 | hey, here's the tariffs that we're going to impose on your goods. Well, now he's delayed |
| 2:05.9 | them one more time to later this week, August 7th. So that is what is supposed to take effect |
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