Trump ratchets up global tariffs on American goods to 15 percent
發佈日期: 2026-02-22 21:15
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U.S. President Donald Trump said that he wants a global tariff of 15 percent, up from 10 percent he had announced a day earlier.
This after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down many of the far-reaching taxes on imports that Trump imposed over the past year.
Meanwhile French President Emmanuel Macron said time was needed to analyze and adapt to any consequences of the tariffs.
Trump's announcement on social media was the latest sign that despite the court's check on his powers, the Republican president still intends to ratchet up tariffs to 15 percent.
Tariffs have been his favourite tool for rewriting the rules of global commerceand applying international pressure.
The Supreme Court Friday struck down tariffs Trump had imposed on nearly every country using an emergency powers law. Trump said he will use a different albeit more limited legal authority to get his way.
Trump has already signed an executive order enabling him to bypass Congress and impose a 10 percent tax on imports from around the world starting Tuesday the same day as his State of the Union speech. However those tariffs are limited to 150 days unless they are extended legislatively.
The White House did not immediately respond to a message inquiring when the president would sign an updated order to peg the tariffs at 15 percent.
Commenting on Trump's global tariffs, French President Emmanuel Macron said time was needed to analyze and adapt to any consequences of tariffs.
Meanwhile U.S. business owner Dawn Wagner in Vermont said she was happy with the Supreme Court's ruling but doesn't see it positively affecting the cost of doing business.The chocolatier relies on imported cocoa beans from West Africa and Central America to make her chocolate.
Dawn Wagner, owner and lead chocolatier, Daily Chocolate, said: "I'm relying on it being imported so tariffs have definitely affected me. It is definitely stressful. I wish anything would go through the right channels and through Congress and all the way it's supposed to. But I don't have faith that it's really going to change much. Once a price spike has happened it kind of sits there."
