Trump's 10% Baseline Tariff on Most US Imports Takes Effect

Trump's mixed signals about his willingness to negotiate to reduce the size of his tariffs are complicating matters for foreign leaders

- Bloomberg

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump's 10% baseline tariffs on US trading partners around the world came into effect on Saturday as he plowed ahead with his strategy to encourage domestic investment by companies eager to avoid import taxes.

While the baseline charge has kicked in, higher duties on some countries—which replace, rather than add to the 10% rate—are due to start on April 9. Countries are weighing how to respond to Trump's latest levies, which raised US tariffs to their highest level in more than a century and battered the post-World War II world trading system he has long decried as unfair.