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Trump threatens to escalate trade war with new round of tariffs up to 50%

President Donald Trump said he will impose tariffs ranging from a minimum rate of 15% to a clip as high as 50% as his Aug. 1 deadline looms.

“We’ll have a straight, simple tariff of anywhere between 15% and 50%,” Trump said Wednesday at an artificial intelligence summit in Washington, DC.

Trump’s latest tariff salvo was aimed at countries that have not yet secured bilateral trade frameworks with Washington.

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