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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Trump Escalates Trade War, Announces Global Tariffs

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

News

41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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President Trump steps up his massive global trade war and announces sweeping new tariffs against countries around the globe. President Trump called it a declaration of economic independence. According to economists, the move could push the United States economy closer to a recession.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is CNN Breaking News. Welcome to The Lead, and I am Jake Tapper.

0:38.2

Our breaking news just moments ago, President Trump,

0:40.6

officially announcing widespread what he calls reciprocal tariffs,

0:44.6

at least 10%, on practically all goods coming into the United States,

0:49.1

plus higher rates on dozens of countries that have the highest trade deficits with the United States.

0:56.0

We will charge them approximately half of what they are and have been charging us.

1:01.5

So the tariffs will be not a full reciprocal. I could have done that, I guess,

1:09.0

but it would have been tough for a lot of countries. We didn't want to do that. Mr. that, I guess, but it would have been tough for a lot of countries we didn't want to do that.

1:13.9

Mr. Trump busted out a giant chart, as is his want, to show the specific details. And as Mr. Trump's

1:21.5

global trade war escalates, so do the odds of a recession, according to economists at Goldman Sachs.

1:29.7

Trump's move to overhaul, the world economy

1:32.8

could end up impacting every American in the short term

1:35.6

and the long term, raising prices in the short term

1:38.7

at a time when budgets are already stretched thin

1:40.9

from years of inflation.

1:43.1

President Trump says that the tariffs in the long run

1:46.0

will create more jobs in the United States and revive certain manufacturing sectors and even

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