{"id":31252,"date":"2025-07-08T19:41:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T02:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/trump-says-he-will-hit-copper-imports-with-50-per-cent-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T19:41:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T02:41:57","slug":"trump-says-he-will-hit-copper-imports-with-50-per-cent-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/trump-says-he-will-hit-copper-imports-with-50-per-cent-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he will hit copper imports with 50 per cent tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 U.S. President Donald Trump says he will impose a 50 per cent tariff on copper imports \u2014 but isn\u2019t saying yet when it will take effect.<\/p>\n<p>Trump told reporters at a cabinet meeting that \u201ctoday we\u2019re doing copper\u201d but the president was not scheduled to sign any executive orders today to implement the duties.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a sign that Trump plans to go ahead with a list of sectoral tariffs beyond his current import taxes on steel, aluminum and automobiles.<\/p>\n<p>Trump says he also will announce duties soon on pharmaceuticals but suggests he would give manufacturers a year before introducing those tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s comments come after he delayed his massive global tariff regime on Monday to give his administration more time for trade negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Devastating U.S. duties against countries around the world were set to come into force Wednesday before Trump pushed back the deadline to Aug. 1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a92025 The Canadian Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/economic\/2025\/07\/trump-says-he-will-hit-copper-imports-with-50-per-cent-tariffs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] WASHINGTON \u2014 U.S. President Donald Trump says he will impose a 50 per cent tariff on copper imports \u2014 &#8230; <a title=\"Trump says he will hit copper imports with 50 per cent tariffs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/trump-says-he-will-hit-copper-imports-with-50-per-cent-tariffs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump says he will hit copper imports with 50 per cent tariffs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[357,295],"class_list":["post-31252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-commercial-news","tag-blog","tag-technology","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}