President Donald Trump insisted he won’t back off an April 2 deadline to impose sweeping global tariffs after a series of delays and exceptions for Canada and Mexico. “We’ve been ripped off for years,

Auto group: "Revoking the exemption for Canada and Mexico and extending tariffs to auto parts with steel and aluminum will add significant costs."

President Donald Trump said the US would respond to the European Union’s countermeasures against his new 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum, raising the risk of further escalation in his global trade war.

President Donald Trump‘s newly implemented tariffs on steel and aluminum went into effect overnight on Tuesday, inviting varying levels of retaliation from the United States’s top trading partners. The president had previously announced the new metals tariffs in February but delayed implementation until Tuesday to allow goods already in transit to escape the new fees

Trump's action to bulk up protections for American steel and aluminum producers restores effective tariffs of 25% on all imports of the metals and extends the duties to hundreds of downstream products,