2025-04-10
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Hello and welcome to World Business Report here on the BBC World Service.
I'm Rahul Tandon and we're going to get straight into what is the only business story that people are talking about at the moment.
It's been a dramatic few hours for the global economy.
Donald Trump has announced a 90 day pause on all tariffs over and above his 10 percent baseline, except for China.
Their tariffs have been raised to one hundred and twenty five percent.
Let's hear some of what the US president has been saying.
Well, I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line.
They were getting yippy, you know, they were getting a little bit yippy,
a little bit afraid, unlike these champions, because we have a big job to do.
No other president would have done what I did.
No other president.
I know the presidents, they wouldn't have done it.
And it had to be done.
What was happening to us on trade, not only with, you know, if you look at it,
not only with China, but China is by far the biggest abuser in history.
Mr. Trump also returned to a familiar line when it came to tariffs.
That one of doing deals.
A deal is going to be made with China.
A deal is going to be made with every one of them.