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‘It all has to change’: Trump escalates trade war with new tariff threat for China

US politicians continued to single out Australian beef exports for criticism, while the president gave stronger signals that he would lower tariffs on countries that agree to remove trade barriers.

  • Michael Koziol

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Repercussions from US President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff announcements spread across global markets.

Up to four rate cuts on the cards amid $100b wipeout

Australia’s sharemarket plunged 4.2 per cent in a meltdown driven by investors’ fears that an escalating global trade war will drag the United States into recession.

  • Clancy Yeates, Millie Muroi, Dominic Powell and Shane Wright

Trump’s shadow is electoral kryptonite to the voters Dutton needs most

Donald Trump is anathema to the educated, affluent voters in the once-Liberal strongholds the Coalition needs to win back to seize power.

  • Christopher Pyne
President Donald Trump returns to his Mar-a-Lago club from Trump National Golf Club in Florida on Sunday.

‘Your question is so stupid’: Trump reacts to market fallout after weekend of golf

As world markets crashed, Trump spent much of the weekend golfing in Florida, where he claimed to have won another tournament.

  • Michael Koziol
The White House was last week forced to hose down Politico and ABC reports that Donald Trump had told members of his cabinet that Elon Musk would soon depart and return to the private sector.

Musk in public spat with Trump’s top adviser over tariffs

The billionaire attacked Peter Navarro, the president’s hawkish pro-tariff trade adviser who has been critical of Australia in negotiations.

  • Michael Koziol
US President Donald Trump went to his golf course in Florida on Friday as the financial markets collapsed after his new tariffs.

After $10.4 trillion wipeout, US expected to fall into recession ‘under weight of tariffs’

While the White House says Trump’s plan is working, some Republicans have joined Democrats to introduce a bill to terminate new tariffs unless the US Congress approves them.

  • Michael Koziol and Rob Harris
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US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

China fires back at Trump with 34 per cent tariffs on American goods

Beijing’s most comprehensive response to date in the ratcheting tariff exchange signals it has no intention of surrendering to the US president’s punitive trade measures.

  • Lisa Visentin
Donald Trump holds up his chart of “reciprocal tariffs” at the announcement event in Washington.

Australia must bolster other partnerships as Trump pursues magical thinking

The effects of Donald Trump’s tariffs on China and our other Asian trading partners will have inescapable economic consequences for us.

  • The Age's View
Cattle farmers have reacted angrily to US tariffs on Australian beef.

Trump’s beef attack rejected by top Australian biosecurity experts

American farmers are calling for their beef exports to be welcomed into Australia, but their imports are the problem.

  • Mike Foley and James Massola
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Economic turmoil created by Trump’s tariffs will affect everything from coffee to interest rates

The turmoil caused by Trump’s “Liberation Day” has been more wide-ranging than even the president could have expected. But what does it mean for me?

  • Shane Wright

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