American beef
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🗓️ 3 April 2025
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Summary
Yesterday the US president Donald Trump unveiled his plans for his long trailed tariff liberation day. After a lengthy ‘speech’ about the cost of eggs and why the rest of the world wont buy American chicken and beef, Trump unveiled the quote unquote reciprocal tariffs the US will impose in the coming week.
So do the figures add up? And what will these tariffs mean for the UK and for the global economy?
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| 0:49.9 | Hello, I'm Andrew Maher, and you're listening to Politics from the New Statesman. |
| 0:57.1 | Yesterday, the U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled his plans for his long-trailed tariff liberation day. |
| 1:04.4 | April 2nd, 2025 will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn, |
| 1:12.7 | the day America's destiny was reclaimed, and the day that we began to make America wealthy again. |
| 1:16.1 | After a lengthy speech about the cost of eggs, |
| 1:17.4 | I got blamed for eggs. |
| 1:18.7 | We got to work on eggs. |
| 1:22.3 | As I said before, the price of eggs dropped now 59%. And why the rest of the world won't buy American chicken and beef? |
| 1:25.1 | They don't want it. |
| 1:26.7 | The European Union bans imports of most American poultry. |
| 1:30.2 | Trump unveiled the quote, unquote, reciprocal tariffs the U.S. will impose in the coming week. |
| 1:35.2 | Our country and its taxpayers have been ripped off for more than 50 years, but it is not going to happen anymore. |
| 1:43.1 | It's not going to happen. |
| 1:44.2 | So what will these tariffs mean for the UK and for the global economy? |
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