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WSJ What’s News

Trump’s Tariff Plans Take Shape

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

Daily News, News

4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

A.M. Edition for Nov. 26. Donald Trump vows to slap 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports from day one and an additional 10% tariff on Chinese imports, stirring currency markets. Plus, with the President-elect directly linking these new levies to the international narcotics trade, we ask WSJ correspondent Brian Spegele whether Trump’s hardball tactics on China will work to ease the fentanyl crisis. And the White House proposes a big coverage expansion plan for Medicare and Medicaid to pay for popular weight-loss drugs. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Donald Trump offers new details on his promised tariffs targeting Mexico, Canada, and China.

0:40.8

Plus, we'll go inside Trump's plan to put maximum pressure on Beijing to stem the illicit drug

0:46.6

trade. If you are the Chinese leadership in Beijing, and you do agree to effectively do what

0:51.8

the Trump administration is asking you to do, to what extent are you going

0:54.8

to look weak in the eyes of your own people, right? Many of the experts that we talk to about this,

0:59.2

that's simply not how you get the Chinese to change their behavior. And the White House proposes

1:03.7

a major expansion of Medicare and Medicaid's coverage of anti-obesity drugs. It's Tuesday,

1:09.6

November 26th.

1:12.6

I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal,

1:15.5

and here is the AM edition of What's News,

1:19.3

the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

1:31.7

President-elect Donald Trump is promising to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% tariff on all of their U.S. exports beginning on his first day in office. A clear signal he wants to rewrite the terms of the

1:37.6

U.S.M.CA agreement, the free trade pact that he negotiated in his first term. Hosting on

1:43.6

truth social, Trump added that all Chinese

1:46.5

products bound for the U.S. would face an additional 10% tariff on top of those the U.S. has

1:52.2

already imposed, though he didn't specify when. It wasn't immediately clear what legal authority

1:58.1

Trump will invoke to justify the tariffs, though he faulted America's

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