Americanswers... on 5 Live! What is the impact of Trump's tariffs?

Americanswers ... 5 Live! 特朗普的关税有什么影响?

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2025-02-04

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After announcing he would place tariffs on Canada and Mexico during his campaign, the president nearly followed through. After sending the world economy into a frenzy, Trump then postponed the trade war with his North American neighbours on hold after securing concessions from both of them over border security. But he still has China and the EU in his sights. Is the UK next on the list for the trade war? And how do tariffs work anyway? Sarah and Justin join Matt Chorley to try and make sense of it all. They also discuss whether Trump’s staff might withhold information from him after his reaction to last week’s aviation collision, and if he might “pull a Liz Truss?” HOSTS: • Sarah Smith, North America Editor • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter GET IN TOUCH: - Join our online community: https://discord.gg/qSrxqNcmRB - Send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp to +44 330 123 9480 - Email Americast@bbc.co.uk - Or use #Americast This episode was made by Rufus Gray, and Catherine Fusillo. The series producer is Purvee Pattni. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham. If you want to be notified every time we publish a new episode, please subscribe to us on BBC Sounds by hitting the subscribe button on the app. You can now listen to Americast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Americast”. It works on most smart speakers. US Election Unspun: Sign up for Anthony’s BBC newsletter: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68093155 Americast is part of the BBC News Podcasts family of podcasts. The team that makes Americast also makes lots of other podcasts, including The Global Story, The Today Podcast, and of course Newscast and Ukrainecast. If you enjoy Americast (and if you're reading this then you hopefully do), then we think that you will enjoy some of our other pods too. See links below. The Global Story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/w13xtvsd The Today Podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0gg4k6r Newscast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/p05299nl Ukrainecast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0bqztzm
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  • We have recorded today an episode of Americ Answers.

  • We did it with Matt Chorley.

  • Sarah and I did it with him and we concentrated mainly on tariffs, which was the right thing to do.

  • But of course, the news breaks, it keeps breaking.

  • It happened during our recording a little bit about Mexico, which Sarah brought to us, but it's happened big time this evening, British time, with a phone call between Justin Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada, and Donald Trump in which there has been very, very basically, Canada is saying now that they're going to do all sorts of extra things to stop fentanyl, this terrible drug, from being smuggled across the border into the United States.

  • There's going to be a joint task force, all sorts of other very big sounding things which possibly add up to something, possibly don't add up to that much.

  • But anyway, the bottom line is at the moment the tariffs against Mexico are put on hold and the tariffs against Canada put on hold as well.

  • And there's a phone call with Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader tomorrow.

  • So we'll what comes of that?