Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariffs are threatening July 4th fireworks

Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs are threatening July 4th fireworks

President Donald Trump’s massive China tariffs are jeopardizing American fireworks shows, threatening to drive up prices and limit supplies. U.S. fireworks wholesalers and distributors say they’ve been canceling shipments from China for this year’s July Fourth holiday. Some are also halting manufacturing in China of fireworks for next year’s celebrations of the 250th anniversary of…

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How Trump tariffs have begun to bite China

How Trump tariffs have begun to bite China

US President Donald Trump‘s sky-high tariffs imposed in China have started making an impact even though China puts up a brave front. Tariffs have struck when China’s economy is struggling to fully recover from the pandemic effects and is also grappling with sluggish domestic demand and a protracted property sector crisis.China’s leaders are downplaying the…

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Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks while holding the company's new GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards and a Thor Blackwell robotics processor during the 2025 CES event in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. Huang announced a raft of new chips, software and services, aiming to stay at the forefront of artificial intelligence computing. Photographer: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty Images

‘China is right behind us’: Jensen Huang says we need to ‘accelerate the diffusion of American AI technology around the world’

What do you get when you cross a giant global tech company with an overtly ‘America-first’ US administration? It looks like the answer is: Policy talk that mixes a strange blend of globalisation and patriotism. Case and point, Jensen Huang’s recent comments on President Trump’s potential upcoming changes to chip export rules. The Nvidia CEO…

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