{"id":67136,"date":"2026-02-24T07:57:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/trump-tariffs-what-powerful-trade-weapons-are-at-the-us-presidents-disposal\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T07:57:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:57:04","slug":"trump-tariffs-what-powerful-trade-weapons-are-at-the-us-presidents-disposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/trump-tariffs-what-powerful-trade-weapons-are-at-the-us-presidents-disposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump tariffs: what \u2018powerful\u2019 trade weapons are at the US president\u2019s disposal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 10% levy has been put in place, but the US leader has other economic \u2018bazookas\u2019 he can fire in his trade battle<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/24\/donald-trump-global-tariff-us-levy\">Trump\u2019s new 10% global tariff comes into effect<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/feb\/24\/trump-new-global-tariffs-trade-latest-business-news\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump did not carry through his threat to introduce 15% tariffs overnight.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/24\/donald-trump-global-tariff-us-levy\">he did impose 10% tariffs on imports into the US on Tuesday<\/a>, and the threatened 15% may be the least of his trade partners\u2019 worries.<\/p>\n<p>Pharma and active ingredients.<\/p>\n<p>Processed critical minerals.<\/p>\n<p>Commercial aircraft and jet engines.<\/p>\n<p>Polysilicone used in solar panels and semiconductors.<\/p>\n<p>Drones.<\/p>\n<p>Wind turbines.<\/p>\n<p>Robots.<\/p>\n<p>PPE and medical devices.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/24\/trump-tariffs-trade-us-levy-explained\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 10% levy has been put in place, but the US leader has other economic \u2018bazookas\u2019 he can fire in his trade battle Trump\u2019s new 10% global tariff comes into effect Business live \u2013 latest updates Donald Trump did not carry through his threat to introduce 15% tariffs overnight. However, he did impose 10% tariffs &#8230; <a title=\"Trump tariffs: what \u2018powerful\u2019 trade weapons are at the US president\u2019s disposal?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/trump-tariffs-what-powerful-trade-weapons-are-at-the-us-presidents-disposal\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump tariffs: what \u2018powerful\u2019 trade weapons are at the US president\u2019s disposal?\">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-67136","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\/67136","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=67136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}