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Trump suggests trade war could escalate as administration says it will stop collecting levies ruled illegal by supreme court

Donald Trump has declared that he can use tariffs in a “much more powerful and obnoxious way”, as the UK and the EU said they were seeking urgent clarity on the US trade deals they struck last summer.

Trump threatened to ramp up his global tariff war on Monday, after a supreme court ruling last week that he had overstepped his legal authority to impose his “liberation day” measures last year.

Keir Starmer’s spokesperson said he did not expect Trump’s new 15% global tariff – announced on Saturday – to affect the “majority” of a UK-US economic deal that was agreed last year.

However, it is still not clear if the new tariffs, collected from Tuesday, will be at the 10% rate on most goods agreed last May, the 15% rate, or customs default to pre-reciprocal day tariffs.

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[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 17 points 4 hours ago

..tariffs..tariffs..tariffs..tariffs.. like a broken record. Comply and new tariffs await you when he .... oh, he'll just find something. But sure, go ahead, punish the Americans. Most of the world will continue to turn to stable, reliable, trusted and respected partners to trade with.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 hours ago

Stock photo of Trump shitting in his diapers.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I for one am excited to see the Supreme Court manage the argument that if it’s an “official act” it can’t be a crime, yet that he’s in contempt of court over these tariffs.

[–] CandleTiger@programming.dev 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

~~I think Andrew Jackson has already established how that discussion goes.~~ edit: no such decisive outcome as I thought actually happened

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t actually know much about him, so would you mind enlightening me, even if it’s just a sentence of some awful thing he did 

[–] CandleTiger@programming.dev 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Hm, I was thinking about the well-known quite “Justice Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it”

But I looked it up and it a) came from a case that is way more nuanced and complicated and b) appears to be a made-up quote in the first place

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 points 51 minutes ago

That basically captures the situation though.

Honestly at this point you guys should just stop trading with us until or unless a not-idiot is running this shitshow