{"id":132727,"date":"2025-04-06T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trumps-tariffs-end-world-as-we-knew-it-uks-starmer-al-jazeera\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T19:10:00","slug":"trumps-tariffs-end-world-as-we-knew-it-uks-starmer-al-jazeera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trumps-tariffs-end-world-as-we-knew-it-uks-starmer-al-jazeera\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s tariffs end \u2018world as we knew it\u2019: UK\u2019s Starmer – Al Jazeera"},"content":{"rendered":"

New global tariffs imposed by the US will have \u2018profound\u2019 economic consequences, the British prime minister warns.<\/em>
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the introduction of sweeping global tariffs by the United States has created a \u201cnew world\u201d governed by \u201cdeals and alliances\u201d rather than rules.
Starmer made the remarks in an opinion piece published in The Sunday Telegraph newspaper as countries around the world braced for further fallout from US President Donald Trump\u2019s new tariff regime, which sent markets plummeting at the end of last week.
\u201cThe world as we knew it has gone. Old assumptions can no longer be taken for granted,\u201d Starmer wrote.
Trump\u2019s 10 percent baseline import tax on goods from around the world kicked in on Saturday. While the United Kingdom has got off relatively lightly with the 10 percent tariff, many nations face even higher levies in the coming days.
\u201cThis is an economic revolution, and we will win,\u201d the US president wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, on Saturday. \u201cHang tough, it won\u2019t be easy, but the end result will be historic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Starmer disagreed. \u201cNobody wins from a trade war,\u201d he said, describing \u201cprofound \u201d economic consequences from Trump\u2019s trade offensive and signalling that \u201call options remain on the table\u201d in responding to the tariffs.
On Sunday, Darren Jones, chief secretary to the UK Treasury, said on the BBC\u2019s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme that \u201cglobalisation as we\u2019ve known it for the last number of decades\u201d had in effect come to an end.
UK ministers had been reluctant to criticise the Trump administration in the wake of the tariffs as officials have been in talks with the US in recent weeks in the hope of securing a trade deal with Washington.
Starmer insisted in his opinion piece that a trade deal will be struck with the US only \u201cif it is right for British business and the security of working people\u201d, insisting that he would \u201ccontinue to make the case for free and open trade\u201d.
Trump\u2019s 34-percent tariff on Chinese goods is set to kick in next week, triggering Beijing\u2019s announcement of a 34-percent levy on US products from Thursday.
The European Union and Japan are also among about 60 US trading partners set to face higher rates on Wednesday, raising fears of recessions in some of the world\u2019s leading economies.
Trump\u2019s announcement of the tariffs on Wednesday has sent countries scrambling for a response. Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced on Saturday that he would suspend all tariffs on goods imported from the US after being hit with an 18-percent levy.
On Sunday, Indonesian Chief Economic Minister Airlangga Hartarto said in a statement that his country, Southeast Asia\u2019s largest economy, would not retaliate against Trump\u2019s 32-percent tariff, which is to take effect on Wednesday.
\u201cThe approach was taken by considering the long-term interest of bilateral trade relation, as well as to maintain the investment climate and national economic stability,\u201d he said, adding that Jakarta will support potentially impacted sectors, such as the apparel and footwear industry.
The new levies mark \u201cthe most sweeping tariff hike since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, the 1930 law best remembered for triggering a global trade war and deepening the Great Depression\u201d, said the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank based in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

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New global tariffs imposed by the US will have \u2018profound\u2019 economic consequences, the British prime minister warns.British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the introduction of sweeping global tariffs by the United States has created a \u201cnew world\u201d governed by \u201cdeals and alliances\u201d rather than rules.Starmer made the remarks in an opinion piece published in The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}