Trump says he will increase his new global tariffs to 15%
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🗓️ 21 February 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
US President Donald Trump has said he will increase his worldwide tariff from 10% to 15%, as he continued to rail against a Supreme Court ruling that struck down his previous import taxes.
Also on the programme: far right French activists have marched through the city of Lyon after a nationalist student was beaten to death; and OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has said it considered alerting the Canadian authorities to the activities of a person who later carried out one of the worst mass shootings in the country's history. (Photo: President Trump addresses a press conference about the Supreme Court's striking down of most of his tariffs in the briefing room at the White House in Washington, DC on 20 February 2026. Credit: EPA/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.5 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:13.5 | We're coming to you live from London. |
| 0:15.4 | I'm Leila Naffey. |
| 0:16.8 | Coming up on the programme, far-right demonstrators marched through the French city of Lyon today, commemorating the death of one of their own. |
| 0:28.6 | The marchers were calling for justice for Conta Durant, who was beaten to death in an attack blamed on far-left militants. |
| 0:36.1 | We'll be hearing about the impact of his death on French |
| 0:39.0 | politics in about half an hour's time. But first, let us start in the US, where Donald Trump |
| 0:45.1 | has doubled down on his defiant response to the Supreme Court, which ruled yesterday that |
| 0:50.7 | most of the tariffs he announced last year were illegal. Having attacked the |
| 0:55.2 | justices as disloyal for voting that he had overstepped his authority by using emergency |
| 1:00.5 | legislation to impose the duties, President Trump said he would impose further global tariffs |
| 1:05.9 | at a rate of 10% using a different law. The Supreme Court's decision calls into question the trade deals signed by the US |
| 1:13.9 | with other countries on the basis of the original tariffs. |
| 1:17.7 | The French President Emmanuel Macron warned earlier today |
| 1:20.6 | against jumping to any conclusions. |
| 1:31.7 | We shouldn't go too fast either, because I note that President Trump, because I don't go too fast either, because I note that President Trump, |
| 1:36.0 | after a few hours, said he had revised the measures to introduce new tariffs. |
| 1:40.4 | But this time more limited and for everyone, so we will see. |
| 1:45.1 | We will look exactly at the consequences, what can be done and we will adapt. |
| 1:50.8 | Well, he was right to be cautious because later today, President Trump announced he'd in fact be raising his new tariffs to 15%, which he claimed was a level fully allowed and legally tested. |
| 1:57.9 | So where does this leave America's trading partners? |
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