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Trump escalates commerce warfare with Canada following Palestine stance

Good morning and welcome to our rolling protection of US politics as Donald Trump intensified his commerce warfare with Canada a day forward of his 1 August deadline for a tariff settlement.

The president posted on his Fact Social platform:

Wow! Canada has simply introduced that it’s backing statehood for Palestine. That may make it very laborious for us to make a Commerce Cope with them. Oh’ Canada!!!

Trump is about to impose a 35% tariff on all Canadian items not lined by the US-Mexico-Canada commerce settlement if the 2 nations don’t attain an settlement by the deadline.

Canadian prime minister Mark Carney beforehand stated tariff negotiations with Washington had been constructive, however the talks might not conclude by the deadline. Canada is the second-largest US buying and selling associate after Mexico, and the biggest purchaser of US exports.

Carney followed France and Britain as he said on Wednesday that his country was planning to recognize Palestine at a meeting of the United Nations in September.

We’ll be bringing you all of the developments on this story at the moment. In different information:

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US treasury’s Bessent: China deal not executed, will discuss to Trump

America believes it has the makings of a commerce take care of China, however it’s “not 100% executed,” Scott Bessent advised CNBC in an interview, including that he would discuss to Donald Trump in a while Thursday.

The US treasury secretary additionally stated he didn’t know what would occur with commerce with India, saying it had “not been an ideal world actor”.

Donald Trump once more criticised Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell on Thursday, a day after the US central financial institution held rates of interest regular in a 9-2 vote.

In a put up on Fact Social, he wrote:

Jerome “Too Late” Powell has executed it once more!!! He’s TOO LATE, and truly, TOO ANGRY, TOO STUPID, & TOO POLITICAL, to have the job of Fed Chair.

He’s costing our Nation TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS, along with one of the incompetent, or corrupt, renovations of a constructing(s) within the historical past of development! Put one other manner, “Too Late” is a TOTAL LOSER, and our Nation is paying the worth!

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The US Federal Reserve left its benchmark rate of interest unchanged on Wednesday, even amid intense stress from Donald Trump to decrease charges.

Regardless of an onslaught of attacks from the White Home towards the Fed, officers on the central financial institution stated that financial “uncertainty” stays too excessive to decrease charges.

However two of the Fed’s governors voted towards the choice – the primary time that a number of governors have voted towards the bulk since 1993. Governors Christopher Waller and Michelle Bowman, each appointed by Trump, wished charges to be lowered. Each have been floated as potential replacements for Fed chair Jerome Powell.

Knowledge launched on Wednesday underlined the resilience of the US economy, which bounced again sooner than anticipated within the second quarter. US gross home product (GDP) grew at an annual charge of three% within the second quarter of 2025, based on the newest official information, forward of the common 2.5% forecast from economists.

This marked a big acceleration from a 0.5% contraction within the first quarter, which was dragged down by a surge of imports as corporations tried to get forward of Trump’s tariffs. However the rebound was boosted by a 30% droop in imports.

Trump used the information to as soon as once more name for a charge lower and once more insulted Powell, whom he has nicknamed “Too Late”. “2Q GDP JUST OUT: 3%, WAY BETTER THAN EXPECTED! ‘Too Late’ MUST NOW LOWER THE RATE. No Inflation! Let folks purchase, and refinance, their properties!” he wrote on Truth Social.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday slapped a 50% tariff on most Brazilian items to battle what he has referred to as a “witch hunt” towards former president Jair Bolsonaro, however softened the blow by excluding sectors corresponding to plane, power and orange juice from heavier levies.

Trump introduced the tariffs, a number of the steepest levied on any financial system within the US commerce warfare, as his administration additionally unveiled sanctions on the Brazilian supreme court docket justice who has been overseeing Bolsonaro’s trial on fees of plotting a coup, Reuters reported.

“Alexandre de Moraes has taken it upon himself to be decide and jury in an illegal witch hunt towards US and Brazilian residents and corporations,” Treasury secretary Scott Bessent stated in an announcement.

Bessent stated Moraes “is accountable for an oppressive marketing campaign of censorship, arbitrary detentions that violate human rights, and politicized prosecutions” together with towards former president Jair Bolsonaro.”

Final week, the Brazilian justice levied search warrants and restraining orders towards Bolsonaro over allegations he courted Trump’s interference in his legal case, during which he’s accused of plotting to cease President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from taking workplace in 2023.

The Trump administration is pushing an initiative for thousands and thousands of People to add private well being information and medical information on new apps and techniques run by personal tech corporations, promising simpler to entry well being information and wellness monitoring.

The brand new system will deal with diabetes and weight administration, conversational synthetic intelligence that helps sufferers, and digital instruments corresponding to QR codes and apps that register sufferers for check-ins or observe medicines.

The initiative, spearheaded by an administration that has already freely shared extremely private information about People in ways in which have examined authorized bounds, might put sufferers’ needs for extra comfort at their physician’s workplace on a collision course with their expectations that their medical info be stored personal.

“There are huge moral and authorized considerations,” stated Lawrence Gostin, a Georgetown College regulation professor who focuses on public well being. “Sufferers throughout America must be very fearful that their medical information are going for use in ways in which hurt them and their households.”

President Donald Trump stated that the US has executed little or no enterprise with India, and that Russia and the US do virtually no enterprise collectively.

“I don’t care what India does with Russia”, he stated in a Fact Social put up on Thursday, including that “they’ll take their useless economies down collectively, for all I care”.

In an earlier Fact Social put up on Wednesday Trump talked about India’s commerce with Russia when asserting the US would impose a 25% tariff on items imported from India beginning on Friday.

In response to the sooner Fact Social put up, the Indian authorities stated it was learning the implications of Trump’s bulletins and remained devoted to securing a good commerce deal.

Trump stated that India has at all times purchased a overwhelming majority of their army gear and power from Russia, which was “not good”.

The US tariff charge on Malaysian items can be introduced on Friday, Malaysian premier Anwar Ibrahim stated on Thursday after chatting with US president Donald Trump.

Malaysia is going through a 25% tariff on its exports to the US except a take care of Washington is reached by Friday.

The 2 nations have held a number of rounds of talks, with Malaysia’s commerce minister saying a number of sticking factors remained, significantly on non-trade obstacles.

Anwar stated he mentioned tariffs “within the spirit and precept of free commerce” throughout a cellphone dialog with Trump early on Thursday.

President Donald Trump stated on Wednesday the US will cost a 15% tariff on imports from South Korea, down from a threatened 25%, as a part of a deal that eases tensions with a top-10 buying and selling associate and key Asian ally.

South Korea additionally agreed to speculate $350 billion in the US in tasks chosen by Trump and to buy power merchandise price $100 billion, Reuters reported.

The association, introduced after Trump met with Korean officers on the White Home, got here throughout a blizzard of commerce coverage bulletins. Many nations are dashing to chop offers forward of 1 August, when Trump has promised increased tariffs will kick in.

“I’m happy to announce that the US of America has agreed to a Full and Full Commerce Cope with the Republic of Korea,” Trump wrote on Fact Social.

The negotiations had been an early take a look at for South Korean president Lee Jae Myung, who took workplace in June after a snap election. He stated the deal eradicated uncertainty and set US tariffs decrease than or on the similar degree as main rivals.

“We’ve got crossed a giant hurdle,” Lee stated in a Fb put up. Trump stated Lee would go to the White Home “inside the subsequent two weeks” for his first assembly with the U.S. president.

South Korea will settle for American merchandise, together with autos and agricultural items into its markets and impose no import duties on them, Trump added.

South Korea’s high officers stated the nation’s rice and beef markets wouldn’t be opened additional, and discussions over US calls for on meals laws proceed.