{"id":37722,"date":"2025-04-02T13:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/liberation-day-what-is-a-tariff-and-why-do-they-matter\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T13:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:57:09","slug":"liberation-day-what-is-a-tariff-and-why-do-they-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/liberation-day-what-is-a-tariff-and-why-do-they-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Liberation day\u2019: what is a tariff and why do they matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s threats to impose widescale import levies have spooked governments, investors and analysts alike. Here\u2019s why \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has said \u201ctariffs\u201d is the most beautiful word in the dictionary.<\/p>\n<p>The US president is expected to unveil his latest round of these border taxes on Wednesday at 4pm ET. In what he is calling \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-tariffs\">liberation day<\/a>\u201d, Trump has argued the step is needed to raise money and to encourage domestic manufacturing. But it is also rattling the global economy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/apr\/02\/liberation-day-what-is-a-tariff-and-why-they-matter-donald-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s threats to impose widescale import levies have spooked governments, investors and analysts alike. Here\u2019s why \u2026 Donald Trump has said \u201ctariffs\u201d is the most beautiful word in the dictionary. The US president is expected to unveil his latest round of these border taxes on Wednesday at 4pm ET. In what he is calling &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Liberation day\u2019: what is a tariff and why do they matter?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/liberation-day-what-is-a-tariff-and-why-do-they-matter\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Liberation day\u2019: what is a tariff and why do they matter?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}