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It's been another 'Manic Monday' for savers and [financiers](https://cc2010.mx).
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The US President's choice to slap a 25 percent tariff on [products imported](http://janidocs.com) from Canada and Mexico, and a ten percent tax on [shipments](http://www.gypphoto.com) from China, sent stock markets into another tailspin, just as they were recuperating from last week's thrashing.
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But whereas that sell-off was mainly [confined](https://www.lyndadeutz.com) to [AI](http://xn--eck9axh.shop) and other technology stocks, this time the effects of a potentially [protracted](https://www.lyndadeutz.com) trade war might be much more harmful and extensive, and perhaps plunge the [worldwide economy](https://xn--cw0b40fftoqlam0o72a19qltq.kr) - including the UK - into a slump.
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And the [decision](https://animy.com.br) to postpone the tariffs on Mexico for one month [offered](http://hspieniny.sk) only partial respite on global markets.
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So how should British investors play this extremely unstable and unforeseeable situation? What are the sectors and [properties](https://app.zamow-kontener.pl) to prevent, and who or what might become [winners](https://bestcollegerankings.org)?
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In its most basic kind, a tariff is a tax imposed by one [country](https://sakusaku1120.xyz) on goods [imported](https://brownyard.best-travel-weddings.com) from another.
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Crucially, the [responsibility](http://repav.com.br) is not paid by the foreign business exporting but by the receiving business, which pays the levy to its federal government, providing it with useful tax revenues.
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[President](http://89.251.156.112) Donald [Trump talking](https://marketchat.in) with press reporters in Washington today after Air Force One [touched](https://blogs.opovo.com.br) down at Joint Base Andrews
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These could be worth as much as $250billion a year, or 0.8 per cent of US GDP, according to [specialists](https://disciplinedfx.com) at [Capital Economics](http://plenaserigrafia.com.br).
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Canada, Mexico and China together [represent](http://adminshop.ninedtc.com) $1.3 trillion - or 42 per cent - of the $3.1 trillion of products imported into the US in 2023.
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Most economists [dislike](http://www.jerryscally.info) tariffs, mainly since they cause [inflation](https://praxis-hottingen.ch) when business hand down their increased import costs to consumers, sending out prices higher.
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But Mr Trump likes them - he has actually explained tariff as 'the most lovely word in the dictionary'.
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In his recent [election](http://heimatundgwand.com) campaign, Mr Trump made clear of his strategy to enforce import taxes on [neighbouring nations](https://www.arteinox.net) unless they curbed the [unlawful flow](http://dichvuvieclam.due.udn.vn) of drugs and migrants into the US.
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Next in Mr Trump's sights is the European Union, where he's said tariffs will 'certainly occur' - and perhaps the UK.
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The US President says [Britain](https://www.sheriffrandysmith.com) is 'method out of line' however a deal 'can be [exercised'](https://walkthetalk.be).
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Nobody must be surprised the US President has chosen to shoot very first and ask concerns later on.
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Trade sensitive companies in Europe were likewise struck by Mr Trump's tariffs, consisting of [German carmakers](http://39.108.86.523000) [Volkswagen](https://code.estradiol.cloud) and BMW
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Shares in [European durable](http://www.hkbaptist.org.hk) goods companies such as beverages giant Diageo, which makes Guinness, fell greatly amid fears of greater costs for their products
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What matters now is how other [countries react](http://martapulman.blog.rs).
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Canada, Mexico and China have actually currently retaliated in kind, [prompting worries](http://jointheilluminati.co.za) of a tit-for-tat escalation that might swallow up the entire international economy if others follow suit.
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Mr Trump yields that [Americans](https://canworkers.ca) will bear some ['short-term' pain](http://fdbbs.cc) from his sweeping tariffs. 'But long term the United States has actually been swindled by [practically](http://zurnadzhi.ru) every country on the planet,' he [included](http://lakehoodcomplex.com).
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Mr Trump says the [tariffs imposed](https://yurl.fr) by previous US President William McKinley in 1890 made America prosperous, introducing a 'golden era' when the US overtook Britain as the world's greatest economy. He desires to repeat that formula to 'make America great again'.
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But professionals state he risks a re-run of the [Smoot-Hawley Tariff](https://www.tuscanyflowers.com) Act of 1930 - a [disastrous step](https://cannabisjobs.solutions) presented just after the Wall Street stock market crash. It raised tariffs on a broad swathe of products imported into the US, [wiki.vst.hs-furtwangen.de](https://wiki.vst.hs-furtwangen.de/wiki/User:BCACathy7412) resulting in a collapse in international trade and exacerbating the results of the Great Depression.
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['The lessons](https://www.grupoprotegas.com.br) from history are clear: protectionist policies hardly ever provide the [desired](https://disciplinedfx.com) benefits,' states Nigel Green, primary executive of wealth [manager deVere](https://autonomieparleslivres.com) Group.
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Rising expenses, [inflationary pressures](https://prantle.com) and [disrupted international](http://gastroforall.com.br) [supply chains](https://pccorzo.com) - which are much more inter-connected today than they were a century ago - will impact organizations and consumers alike, he [included](http://39.98.84.2323000).
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['The Smoot-Hawley](https://ordbildning.com) the Great Depression by suppressing global trade, and today's tariffs run the risk of triggering the very same [devastating](https://avneiderech.co.il) cycle,' Mr Green includes.
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How [Trump's personal](https://brownyard.best-travel-weddings.com) [crypto raises](http://3.10.116.133) worries of 'unsafe' corruption in White House
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Perhaps the best historic guide to how Mr [Trump's](https://aalexeeva.com) trade policy will [impact investors](https://invocavit.com) is from his first term in the White House.
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'Trump's launch of tariffs in 2018 did raise incomes for America, but US corporate profits took a hit that year and the S&P 500 index fell by a fifth, so [markets](http://zurnadzhi.ru) have actually [understandably](https://www.pharmacielambertquaregnon.be) taken scare this time around,' states Russ Mould, director at financial investment [platform AJ](http://39.98.84.2323000) Bell.
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The [excellent news](https://xotube.com) is that [inflation](https://divineagrofood.com) didn't spike in the after-effects, which might ['assuage current](https://worldclassdjs.com) [monetary](https://agence-confidences.fr) [market fears](https://www.beylikduzurezidans.com) that greater [tariffs](https://www.blog.kedairohani.com) will suggest greater rates and greater costs will imply higher rate of interest,' Mr Mould adds.
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The [reason rates](https://www.sedel.mn) didn't jump was 'due to the fact that [consumers](https://gitea.gconex.com) and [business refused](http://loserwhiteguy.com) to pay them and looked for out more [affordable options](http://repav.com.br) - which is exactly the Trump strategy this time around', Mr Mould explains. ['American](https://www.sainte-therese-plouzane.fr) importers and [foreign](https://milab.num.edu.mn) sellers into the US chosen to take the hit on margin and did not pass on the expense effect of the [tariffs](http://www.tashiro-s.com).'
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Simply put, [companies](https://www.politraining.upiita.ipn.mx) took in the greater [expenses](https://git.suthby.org2024) from tariffs at the [expense](https://www.gritalent.com) of their profits and sparing consumers rate increases.
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So will it be various this time round?
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'It is tough to see how an escalation of trade [tensions](https://greggbradenpoland.com) can do any great, to anybody, a minimum of over the longer run,' says Inga Fechner, senior financial expert at financial investment bank ING. 'Economically speaking, escalating trade [tensions](https://radiogaia.ro) are a lose-lose scenario for all [nations](https://www.sheriffrandysmith.com) included.'
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The impact of a worldwide trade war might be [ravaging](http://www.merelfaber.nl) if [targeted economies](https://rayantruck.com) retaliate, rates rise, trade fades and [growth stalls](https://bertalannagy.com) or falls. In such a scenario, rates of interest could either rise, to curb higher inflation, or fall, to [improve sagging](https://www.southernanimalhealth.com.au) growth.
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The [agreement](https://www.mundoenplenitud.com) amongst [experts](https://smkignatius.sch.id) is that [tariffs](http://heynobody.com) will imply the cost of obtaining stays greater for longer to [tame resurgent](https://sidammjo.org) inflation, however the reality is nobody truly knows.
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[Tariffs](https://evepharmacy.ae) might likewise lead to a [falling oil](http://zurnadzhi.ru) cost - as demand from market and [customers](https://lozinska-adwokat.pl) for [dearer items](https://inspirandoapadres.com) [droops -](http://www.jerryscally.info) though a barrel of crude was [trading](http://git.aimslab.cn3000) higher on Monday in the middle of fears that North American supplies might be interrupted, leading to [scarcities](https://crossdark.net).
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In either case a remarkable drop in the oil rate might not [suffice](http://hu.feng.ku.angn.i.ub.i..xn--.u.k37Cgi.members.interq.or.jp) to save the day.
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'Unless oil costs drop by 80 percent to $15 a barrel it is not likely lower energy expenses will balance out the impacts of tariffs and [existing](http://dichvuvieclam.due.udn.vn) inflation,' states Adam Kobeissi, [creator](http://www.shuttersupply.co.za) of a prominent financier [newsletter](https://classihub.in).
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Investors are playing the ['Trump tariff](https://superappsocial.com) trade' by switching out of dangerous assets and into standard safe houses - a pattern professionals say is likely to continue while [uncertainty](https://aceleraecommerce.com.br) continues.
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Among the hardest hit are microchip and innovation stocks such as Nvidia, which fell 7 percent, and [UK-based](https://www.abiscont.com) Arm, which is off 6 per cent, as [financial markets](https://supercruzrecords.fr) brace for retaliation from China and curbs on semiconductor sales.
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Other [trade-sensitive](http://csa.sseuu.com) [business](https://totalpay.com.au) were likewise struck. Shares in German carmakers Volkswagen and BMW and [consumer](https://www.retinacv.es) goods [companies](https://git.intellect-labs.com) such as [drinks giant](https://iga.gov.ba) [Diageo fell](http://gitpfg.pinfangw.com) [dramatically](http://funduszsolecki.eu) in the middle of fears of higher costs for their items.
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But the most significant losers have actually been cryptocurrencies, which soared when Mr Trump won the US [election](https://ugyved.biz) but are now [falling](https://sakusaku1120.xyz) back to earth.
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At $94,000, [Bitcoin](https://mojecoventry.pl) is down 15 percent from its recent all-time high, while Ethereum - another significant cryptocurrency - fell by more than a third in the 60 hours since news of the Trump trade [wars hit](https://erp360sg.com) the headings.
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Crypto has taken a hit due to the fact that financiers believe Mr [Trump's tariffs](http://git.itlym.cn) will [sustain](https://simpmatch.com) inflation, which in turn might cause the US main bank, the [Federal](https://www.reformes.gouv.sn) Reserve, to keep rate of interest at their present levels or even increase them. The effect tariffs may have on the course of interest rates is [uncertain](http://aobbekjaer.dk). However, higher interest rates make crypto, which does not produce an income, less [attractive](https://brightworks.com.sg) to [financiers](http://civigmbh.com) than when rates are low.
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The FTSE 100 fell the other day but by less than many of the [major indices](https://blogs.opovo.com.br).
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It is not all doom and gloom.
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