Trump’s Tariffs: US vs China
Newscast
BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at what seems like an escalation of a possible trade war between the US and China. Plus, the Prime Minister’s attempts to try and protect the UK car business.
James and Chris are joined by business editor Simon Jack, on another very turbulent day in stock markets around the world.
Plus, Financial Times columnist Gillian Tett explains the possible thinking behind Trump’s decisions.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, it's James. Adam is off this week. Thank you very much for joining us on Newscast. |
| 0:10.5 | And guess what? We're going to be talking about Donald Trump. And we're going to be talking about tariffs. |
| 0:16.2 | Because events have been moving unbelievably quickly. The markets have been plummeting all over the world, |
| 0:22.6 | and I'd love to know what questions you have about this that we can try here at Newscast to answer. |
| 0:29.1 | So please get in touch with us, particularly if your business is impacted, not only that, |
| 0:33.9 | but particularly if you have a business that you're worried about. |
| 0:36.4 | Please let us know, tell us what's happening. And we're going to be talking about that and a lot more |
| 0:40.8 | about these tariffs on this episode of Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. I like landscapes. I don't |
| 0:47.5 | think I'm being rude. Japping, unemployed people who are overweight. That is not the agenda. |
| 0:52.2 | It's the fun police working overtime. |
| 0:54.5 | The star is born, Elon. |
| 0:56.4 | So hurt that America let this happen. |
| 0:58.6 | Frankly, I think we need a British Trump. |
| 1:00.4 | Take me down to Down East Stream. Let's go have a tour. |
| 1:03.7 | Blimey. |
| 1:04.3 | Hello, it's James in the studio. |
| 1:06.7 | And goodness me, there is a lot happening. |
| 1:08.7 | Stock markets falling all over the world because of those |
| 1:12.4 | Trump tariffs. The UK Prime Minister making a speech here promising to defend British industry |
| 1:18.6 | and then what might turn out to be the biggest development on Monday, more threats from President |
| 1:25.0 | Trump aimed squarely at Beijing, promising to have even tougher tariffs on them. |
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