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Meta co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has cozied up to US President Donald Trump since the Republican was elected

Former global policy director

Author of explosive Meta memoir stars at US Senate hearing

Donald Trump's tariffs on imports of non-US products -- some of them suspended and altered numerous times -- threaten economic disruption for Latin American and Caribbean economies

Under the eye of China

Strength in numbers: Latin America urges unity in face of Trump tariffs

WTO chief Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala has warned that US-China goods trade could be cut by 80 percent by their tariff war

World Trade Organization

Tariff war could cut US-China goods trade by 80 percent: WTO chief

Volkswagen says profits have already taken a hit from US tariffs on cars

Expectations vs results

Volkswagen says first-quarter profits impacted by Trump tariffs

A Delta Airlines plane shown near Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in August 2023

Recession worries

Delta to trim capacity in light of weakening travel demand

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told a summit in Washington that China chose to escalate trade tensions with Washington by retaliating to President Donald Trump's tariffs

Amidst market turmoil

US Treasury chief defends tariffs, warns against aligning with China

'BE COOL!' Trump posted on social media

Trump trade war escalates as China, EU counterattack

The cuts will fall on management and support roles at the plant, said Tata

Tata Steel to cut jobs at Dutch plant by 15%

Whiskey distillers in Ireland and Northern Ireland are bracing for the impact of US tariffs

'Curve ball': Irish whiskey producers fret over US tariffs

Cars at the storage tower at the Wolfsburg Volkswagen Plant in Germany on November 15, 2024

Behind the logic

How tariffs in the EU work

The power plant at the headquarters of German carmaker Volkswagen in Wolfsburg

'Catastrophe': Volkswagen town rattled by Trump trade war

Greek unions called for a 24-hour strike against the high cost of living

Call for higher wages

Greek general strike hits transport and commerce

The EU plans to hit US soybeans imports with tariffs, after officials said Europe could buy the stuff from Brazil

Think first, then act

How the EU is responding to Trump's trade assault

China is trying to tariff-proof its economy by boosting consumption and investing in key industries

Boosting consumption

China seeks to 'tariff-proof' economy as trade war with US deepens

American households have already been squeezed by high post-Covid inflation

Stockpiling foreign goods

Some US consumers in 'survival mode' as Trump tariffs arrive

The shortages have been driven by factors including poor harvests caused by hot weather and panic-buying prompted by a

Amid poor harvests

Japan to sell more rice reserves as prices soar

Mark Zuckerberg (C), seen here attending the inauguration of US President Donald Trump, is expected to take the stand as Meta goes to trial over antitrust claims

US takes aim at Zuckerberg's social media kingdom

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (L) meets Vietnam President To Lam in Hanoi

Amid US pressure

Vietnam, Spain pledge to upgrade ties after tariff shock

Second time this year

India central bank cuts interest rates as Trump tariffs kick in

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te says he has no plans to retaliate in kind to Donald Trump's tariffs, as the island's companies scamble to work out how to deal with the US blitz

Crunching numbers

Taiwan exporters count the cost of Trump's 'ridiculous' tariffs

The near 150-year old tradition takes place in a circle of red-leather benches

In-person business

Inside Europe's last 'open-outcry' trading floor

Furniture exhibitors in Milan are concerned about the impact of US tariffs

Prestige over price

Trump tariffs leave Italy's luxury furniture makers sitting uncomfortably

More than a quarter of the EU's imports of nitrogen-based fertilisers come from Russia, with more flowing in from Moscow's ally Belarus

EU plan to end Russian fertiliser imports unsettles farmers

(FILES) (L-R) Senior Counselor to the President for Trade and Manufacturing, Peter Navarro, White House deputy chief of staff for policy and US homeland security advisor Stephen Miller, and Elon Musk speak inside the Oval Office of the White House before boarding Marine One with unseen US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC on March 14, 2025. Elon Musk on April 8 described Peter Navarro, a senior White House trade advisor, as

'Car assembler' vs 'moron'

Musk brands Trump aide 'dumber than a sack of bricks' in tariff spat

Argentine President Javier Milei's involvement in the cryptocurrency $LIBRA will face a congressional inquiry

Argentine Congress backs inquiry into Milei crypto scandal

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange have been monitoring President Trump's comments as stocks have fallen this week

Hoping for policy reversal

US stocks fall again as global rally fizzles

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer takes his seat upon arrival at the start of a Senate Finance Committee hearing on President Donald Trump's trade policies

Defending sweeping tariffs

Trump's trade representative says tariffs 'bearing fruit'

Eurostar could soon get some company on the high-speed line between Paris and London

New high-speed rail service

Trenitalia wants to compete with Eurostar on Paris-London route

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