China Tariffs, El Salvador President In DC, Meta Antitrust Trial

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🗓️ 14 April 2025

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China calls new U.S. tariff exemptions a "small step", but urges President Trump to heed rational voices and abolish all reciprocal tariffs, El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele visits Washington to meet President Trump and discuss El Salvador's role in locking up deportees, and Meta's antitrust case begins.

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0:00.0	There's now a carve out for electronics on those steep tariffs.
0:06.5	The U.S. slapped on Chinese goods, but maybe not for long.
0:09.2	Publicly, China showed defiance in the face of this trade war.
0:12.9	Are the U.S. and China any closer to negotiations?
0:15.5	I'm Lela Faldin with Michelle Martin, and this is up first from NPR News.
0:22.0	El Salvador's president is in D.C. for a meeting with President Trump.
0:26.6	Naive Buckele has taken hundreds of people deported from the U.S., alleging their gang members.
0:32.2	Buckele has called himself the world's coolest dictator, but has few fans among human rights advocates
0:37.1	after locking
0:37.8	up his own citizens without due process. What comes out of this meeting?
0:41.8	And the Federal Trade Commission is taking on social media giant META in court.
0:46.0	The case centers on whether Meta broke competition laws when it acquired Instagram and WhatsApp.
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