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The EU hits back as U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs kick in. We'll look at how President

Trump's latest trade moves will impact the global metals market. Plus, Ireland's tariff fears

threatened to overshadow St. Patrick's Day festivities at the White House and voters in Greenland

slow walk independence as Washington sizes up the territory's minerals.

So if President Trump was hoping for an opening for further American interests,

that has sort of been fairly closed off with this election.

It's Wednesday, March 12th.

I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of

What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

25% U.S. tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports went into effect at midnight. The measures

bear similarity to 25% steel and 10% aluminum tariffs that

President Trump embraced in his first term and aims to address what Trump and his team say is an

unfair global steel trade, in which foreign government subsidies and other trade barriers

allow countries to sell steel to American customers cheaper than U.S. made

metals.

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