{"id":37969,"date":"2025-04-05T08:19:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T08:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/americas-brexit-trumps-historic-gamble-on-tariffs-has-been-decades-in-the-making\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T08:19:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T08:19:37","slug":"americas-brexit-trumps-historic-gamble-on-tariffs-has-been-decades-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/americas-brexit-trumps-historic-gamble-on-tariffs-has-been-decades-in-the-making\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Brexit? Trump\u2019s historic gamble on tariffs has been decades in the making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s economic assault on the world stunned economists and sent stock markets into a spiral. Who will pay the price?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/apr\/05\/how-uk-avoided-bigger-blow-trump-tariffs\">\u2018It could\u2019ve been much worse\u2019: how UK avoided a bigger blow from Trump tariffs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/02\/trump-new-tariffs-liberation-day\">vast overhaul<\/a> of US trade policy this week has called time on an era of globalization, alarming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/02\/trump-tariffs-new-york-reaction\">people,<\/a> governments and investors around the world. No one should have been surprised,<strong> <\/strong>the US president said.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of 10% to 50% tariffs on US trading partners tanked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/03\/trump-tariffs-stock-market\">stock markets<\/a> after Trump unveiled a \u201cdeclaration of economic independence\u201d so drastic it drew comparison with Britain\u2019s exit from the European Union \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/eu-referendum\">Brexit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/04\/trump-tariffs-economy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s economic assault on the world stunned economists and sent stock markets into a spiral. Who will pay the price? \u2018It could\u2019ve been much worse\u2019: how UK avoided a bigger blow from Trump tariffs Donald Trump\u2019s vast overhaul of US trade policy this week has called time on an era of globalization, alarming people, governments &#8230; <a title=\"America\u2019s Brexit? Trump\u2019s historic gamble on tariffs has been decades in the making\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/americas-brexit-trumps-historic-gamble-on-tariffs-has-been-decades-in-the-making\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about America\u2019s Brexit? Trump\u2019s historic gamble on tariffs has been decades in the making\">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-37969","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\/37969","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=37969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}