President Donald Trump signed executive actions on Wednesday imposing a 50% tariff on Brazil, a 50% tariff on certain copper products and suspending a tax perk for all countries that allowed cheap packages to fly into the US duty-free.

The U.S. excluded several of Brazil's major exports from the 50% tariff President Donald Trump signed into an executive order on Wednesday, including orange juice, some aircraft, wood pulp and energy products,

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday to impose his threatened 50% tariffs on Brazil, setting a legal rationale that Brazil’s policies and criminal prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro constitute an economic emergency under a 1977 law.

The analysis, released Tuesday, points to the challenges Trump might face in trying to sell his tariffs to the public as a broader political and economic win and not just as evide

In April, US President Donald Trump announced he was introducing sweeping new tariffs, extra taxes that importing firms have to pay if they bring in goods from abroad. Since then some of the US's major trading partners including the UK,

The U.S. economy expanded more than expected as President Donald Trump’s tariffs took hold over recent months, federal government data on Wednesday showed. U.S. gross domestic product, or GDP, increased at a 3% annualized rate over three months ending in June.