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Here is the complete US tariffs list by country
Image source: Getty Images S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) shares fell 0.94% yesterday as the market digested the 'Liberation Day' reciprocal US tariffs. The US Government announced a range of new duties on imported products manufactured outside the...

Bird becomes BC Conservatives' military liaison
The Conservative MLA for Prince George-Valemount has added another portfolio to her list of responsibilities. Rosalyn Bird was named to Opposition Leader John Rustad’s shadow cabinet as citizens’ services critic last year, but in an interview with...

The Lindsay Theater in Sewickley to take moviegoers on an 'Antarctic Voyage'
As part of its Emerging Filmmakers Series, The Lindsay Theater and Cultural Center in Sewickley will show “Antarctic Voyage,” a documentary by award-winning director Kevin Schreck. The film is a chronicle of a 2023 biological research expedition...

Trump slaps “discounted” 24% tariff on Malaysian goods entering US, tech stocks hit the hardest
The United States government under President Donald Trump has imposed a 24% tariff on Malaysian goods entering the country, effective 9th April 2025. This is part of the government’s reciprocal tariff policy on multiple countries, ranging from 10%...
Trump to impose 10 pc tariff on GCC imports
In a major trade shift, US President Donald Trump has announced a 10 percent tariff on imports from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, including the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, and Qatar. The new tariffs...
Why the descendants of the Bounty mutineers love Trump's tariffs
The Kingston and Arthur's Vale historic area of Norfolk Island - or Norflk Ailen. Norfolk Islanders speak Norfuk, a language that arose from maritime English and Tahitian. Photo: AFP/ Michael Runkel While much mockery has arisen from new US import...

Trump’s reciprocal tariffs: How much will each country be hit?
President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced a range of reciprocal tariffs targeting almost all countries that the United States trades with, taking a sledgehammer to Washington’s longstanding advocacy of free trade and globalisation. Trump’s...

Captain Richard Farnfield, Cold War submarine commander
Just before 3.30pm on October 11, 1978, at the height of the Cold War, Commander Richard Farnfield informed British naval headquarters that he had established contact with a Soviet ballistic missile submarine in the eastern Atlantic and was on its...

Here Are Trump's Reciprocal Tariffs By Country. Topping List At 50% Are...
The following is a partial list of reciprocal tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump during his April 2 press conference. All nations will be subject to at least a 10% tariff going forward, while dozens of countries listed below that the...

Notebook: Rachel Mann
Senior service TELEVISION and film are all very well, but there’s nothing like what my granny called “the wireless”: the intimacy, the pictures created by words, the faded glory of a now ancient technology. So, as I wait to offer a live Thought...

Trump sparks trade war with huge tariffs; 10% for Argentina
US President Donald Trump ignited a potentially ruinous global trade war Wednesday as he slapped 10-percent tariffs on imports from around the world and harsh extra levies on key trading partners. Holding up a chart of the sweeping measures in the...

Tina Malone reveals heartbreaking way she'll spend Christmas after husband Paul's tragic death at just 42 as she reflects on 'insurmountable loss'
Tina Malone has revealed the heartbreaking way she will spend this year's Christmas following the tragic death of her late husband Paul. The Shameless star's husband Paul, 42, died by suicide on March 13 after what the soap star has now confirmed...
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, February 2025
Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...

Trump tariffs have triggered global market meltdown of Covid proportions – how can Brits protect their cash & pensions?
TRUMP'S punishing tariffs have triggered a global stock market meltdown of the kind not seen since the start of pandemic lockdowns in March 2020. A market rout that started in Asia in reaction to hefty tariffs on China, Japan and Taiwan has...

Meet the RAF veteran who suffered freak thumb injury and became Invictus Games’ first female UK captain
A Leicestershire RAF veteran was medically discharged after a freak thumb injury left her arm immobile. Rachel Williamson did not let the incident put her down though after recently rediscovering her love for sport and becoming the Invictus Games’...

The B team? XIs packed with players whose names begin with same letter
“The other day in their Women’s Champions League match against Manchester City, Chelsea fielded a back four of Bronze, Bright, Björn and Baltimore,” emails Asad Butt. “Are there other examples of this in defence, midfield or attack?” Back in 2017,...
Be careful what you wish for at election time – just look at America
Save Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Got it Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size Be careful what you wish for (“Dutton on track to be prime minister”, February 24). Americans...

Department of Homeland Security Opposes Ending Trump Tariffs on Canada Due to Flow of Illicit Drugs
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a memo this week it opposes ending President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada to the flow of illicit drugs across the northern border. The DHS said that it opposes S.J. Res. 37, a bill that the...

Donald Trump’s tariffs jar the U.S. stock market, worry consumers
NEW YORK — Financial markets around the world are reeling Thursday morning following President Donald Trump’s latest and most severe volley of tariffs, and the U.S. stock market may be taking the worst of it. The S&P 500 was down 3.3% in early...

Indian Ambassador Dinesh Bhatia gets farewell at business dinner
Argentina’s business community bid farewell to Indian Ambassador Dinesh Bhatia and his wife, Seema Bhatia, at a dinner in the Buenos Aires Sheraton on Wednesday evening. Bhatia, who has been in Argentina since August 2019, will depart for Brazil...