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Trump's New Tariffs, Global Tariff Reactions, TikTok Deadline

Trump's New Tariffs, Global Tariff Reactions, TikTok Deadline

Up First from NPR
Apr 3, 2025 12 min
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President Trump has announced plans to tax virtually all foreign goods coming into the United States. Leaders across the world react with dismay and confusion to the tariffs. And, the owner of TikTok has until Saturday to sell the app and a number of bidders have lined up. <br/><br/><em>Want more comprehensive analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? </em><a href="https://www.npr.org/newsletter/news"target="_blank" ><em>Subscribe to the Up First newsletter.</em></a><em><br/><br/></em>Today's episode of Up First was edited by Rafael Nam, Ryland Barton, Brett Neely, Lisa Thomson and Alice Woelfle. <br>It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Nia Dumas and Christopher Thomas. <br>We get engineering support from Damian Herring-Nathan and our technical director is Carleigh Strange. <br/><br/>See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>

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