{"id":1003,"date":"2025-04-10T18:49:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T18:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2025-04-10T18:49:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T18:49:55","slug":"where-tariffs-stand-after-trumps-partial-pause-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"Where tariffs stand after Trump’s partial pause : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The past week has been a wild ride for businesses and markets, starting with President Trump’s announcement of sweeping tariffs and ending with an abrupt pause on most of them.<\/p>\n

About 12 hours after country-specific tariffs took effect on dozens of U.S. trading partners \u2014 and after days of insisting that he would hold the line \u2014 Trump said Wednesday afternoon that he would pause most of them<\/a> for 90 days.<\/p>\n

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In a post on Truth Social<\/a>, Trump said the reason was that “more than 75 countries have called Representatives of the United States \u2026 to negotiate a solution to the subjects being discussed relative to Trade, Trade Barriers, Tariffs, Currency Manipulation, and Non Monetary Tariffs, and that these Countries have not, at my strong suggestion, retaliated in any way, shape, or form against the United States.”<\/p>\n

Trump had maintained all week \u2014 and even on Wednesday morning<\/a> \u2014 that the country-specific tariffs would not be halted, despite top investors’ growing calls for him to do so. Even though the White House had insisted that tariffs weren’t about negotiations, Trump told reporters<\/a> later Wednesday that “a lot of times, it’s not a negotiation until it is.” <\/p>\n