Back to tarriffs. Keir Starmer is scrambling to stop Donald Trump's latest tariff assault inflicting more damage on the UK economy today. The US president has escalated his response after the Supreme Court dramatically struck down his 'liberation day' reciprocal levies on Friday. Mr Trump initially said he would be imposing a new 10 per cent global levy - but then upped that to 15 per cent yesterday. Businesses warned the move means many will face higher tariffs than before the intervention by the American legal system, as the rate previously applied to the UK was 10 per cent. In his post on Saturday, the US President said: 'Based on a thorough, detailed, and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American decision on Tariffs issued yesterday, after MANY months of contemplation, by the United States Supreme Court, please let this statement serve to represent that I, as President of the United States of America, will be, effective immediately, raising the 10 per cent Worldwide Tariff on Countries, many of which have been 'ripping' the U.S. off for decades, without retribution (until I came along!), to the fully allowed, and legally tested, 15 per cent level.'

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
Trump's sweeping global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court	20/02/26 15:26:00	Ivonne Holliday
Reply	20/02/26 15:30:00	Michael Ixer
Re:Reply	20/02/26 19:15:00	Ivonne Holliday
Reply	20/02/26 23:19:00	Richard Carter
Re:Trump's sweeping global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court	20/02/26 23:51:00	David Ainsworth
Reply	22/02/26 13:29:00	Sue Hammond
Reply	22/02/26 14:10:00	Michael Ixer

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