The tariffs primarily target Republican-held states, such as hitting soybeans in House Speaker Mike Johnson’s Louisiana.

Donald Trump escalated global trade tensions by threatening additional tariffs on European Union (EU) goods if the bloc follows through on its planned counter-tariffs. This comes after the U.S. imposed a 25% duty on

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Wednesday that the European Union's retaliation against President Donald Trump's strengthened steel and aluminum tariffs shows that the bloc's trade policies are "out of step with reality.