Trump tariffs live: Jaguar Land Rover pauses shipments to US as 10% tariff kicks in for UK

President Donald Trump has said that the US needs to “hang tough” in light of his announcement to impose large tariffs on imports into America.

Posting on Truth Social on Saturday, Mr Trump admitted “it won’t be easy, but the end result will be historic”.

The full post said: “China has been hit much harder than the USA, not even close. They, and many other nations, have treated us unsustainably badly. We have been the dumb and helpless ‘whipping post’, but not any longer.

“We are bringing back jobs and businesses like never before. Already, more than five trillion dollars of investment, and rising fast. This is an economic revolution, and we will win. Hang tough, it won’t be easy, but the end result will be historic.

“We will make America great again.”

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has said it will “pause” shipments to the US as it works to “address the new trading terms” of president Donald Trump’s tariffs.

In a statement on Saturday, a JLR spokesperson said: “The USA is an important market for JLR’s luxury brands.

“As we work to address the new trading terms with our business partners, we are taking some short-term actions including a shipment pause in April, as we develop our mid to longer-term plans.”

The CEO of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, which describes itself as the U.S.’s largest commercial Bible and Christian book publisher, told The Wall Street Journal that it had been “all hands on deck,” after the president announced the tariffs on Wednesday.

Bibles are typically printed on thin paper stock and with presses that are largely located outside the U.S., according to The Journal.

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Almost no countries were spared from President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs; even small, uninhabited islands in the Indian Ocean were included in the exhaustive list. But one country was notably missing: Russia.

One of the United States’ largest adversaries was omitted from the list of countries slapped with even the 10 percent baseline tariff – a move that raised some eyebrows given Trump’s previously friendly relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News on Wednesday that Russia was exempt because the U.S. doesn’t trade with them under heavy sanctions placed on the country after it invaded Ukraine in 2022.

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The relatively low 10 per cent baseline tariff that the US has applied to Turkey could favour Turkish exporters, Turkey’s vice president told broadcast media on Saturday.

Along with the baseline tariff that took effect on Saturday, U.S. President Donald Trump has announced higher levies on goods from 57 larger partners including China, European Union, Vietnam and Japan that are due to start next week.

The decision not to impose such levies on Turkey “seems to be to our advantage as of now, for access to the American market”, Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz told CNN Turk.

“There were already tariffs on iron, steel and aluminium (exports from Turkey to the U.S.). When (the U.S.) imposed similar tariffs on the others, there was an equalisation there, it was in our favour,” he added.

Mr Yilmaz said that as an importer, Turkey would also benefit from a drop in international commodity prices, including oil, following Mr Trump’s announcement.

China has taken and will continue to take resolute measures to safeguard its sovereignty, security and development interests, the Chinese foreign ministry has said.

The US should “stop using tariffs as a weapon to suppress China’s economy and trade, and stop undermining the legitimate development rights of the Chinese people,” the ministry said.

Trump introduced additional 34 per cent tariffs on Chinese goods as part of steep levies imposed on most US trade partners, bringing the total duties on China this year to 54 per cent.

This prompted retaliation from China on Friday, including extra levies of 34 per cent on all US goods and export curbs on some rare earths, escalating the trade war between the world’s two largest economies.