Trump tariffs LIVE: Von der Leyen vows to fight back as Trump tariffs leave EU reeling

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Donald Trump announced on Wednesday evening a set of sweeping reciprocal tariffs hitting most countries around the world.

Donald Trump and Ursula von der Leyenlive

Donald Trump unveiled the US' reciprocal tariffs on Wednesday (Image: GETTY)

The European Union will retaliate against Donald Trump’s tariffs, the European Commission's president has vowed. Ursula von der Leyen branded the sweeping tariffs unveiled by the US President on Wednesday evening as a "major blow" to the world.

The 27-strong bloc is to be charged with 20% tariffs, double the amount the UK has been hit with.

Speaking from Uzbekistan, where she is to join the EU-Central Asia summit later on Thursday, Ms Von der Leyen said Brussels was ready to hit back at Washington with countermeasures.

She said: "We are already finalising the first package of countermeasures in response to tariffs on steel. And we’re now preparing for further countermeasures to protect our interests and our businesses if negotiations fail."

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21 mins ago07:50 Adam Toms

Full list of tariffs

Here is a full list of global tariffs announced by the White House:

China: 54%

European Union: 20%

Vietnam: 46%

Taiwan: 32%

Japan: 24%

India: 26%

South Korea: 25%

Thailand: 36%

Switzerland: 31%

Indonesia: 32%

Malaysia: 24%

Cambodia: 49%

United Kingdom: 10%

South Africa: 30%

Brazil: 10%

Bangladesh: 37%

Singapore: 10%

Israel: 17%

Philippines: 17%

Chile: 10%

Australia: 10%

Pakistan: 29%

Turkey: 10%

Sri Lanka: 44%

Colombia: 10%

Peru: 10%

Nicaragua: 18%

Norway: 15%

Costa Rica: 10%

Jordan: 20%

Dominican Republic: 10%

United Arab Emirates: 10%

New Zealand: 10%

Argentina: 10%

Ecuador: 10%

Guatemala: 10%

Honduras: 10%

Madagascar: 47%

Myanmar: 44%

Tunisia: 28%

Kazakhstan: 27%

Serbia: 37%

Egypt: 10%

Saudi Arabia: 10%

El Salvador: 10%

Côte d’Ivoire: 21%

Laos: 48%

Botswana: 37%

Trinidad and Tobago: 10%

Morocco: 10%

Algeria: 30%

Oman: 10%

Uruguay: 10%

Bahamas: 10%

Lesotho: 50%

Ukraine: 10%

Bahrain: 10%

Qatar: 10%

Mauritius: 40%

Fiji: 32%

Iceland: 10%

Kenya: 10%

Liechtenstein: 37%

Guyana: 38%

Haiti: 10%

Bosnia and Herzegovina: 35%

Nigeria: 14%

Namibia: 21%

Brunei: 24%

Bolivia: 10%

Panama: 10%

Venezuela: 15%

North Macedonia: 33%

Ethiopia: 10%

Ghana: 10%

Moldova: 31%

Angola: 32%

Democratic Republic of the Congo: 11%

Jamaica: 10%

Mozambique: 16%

Paraguay: 10%

Zambia: 17%

Lebanon: 10%

Tanzania: 10%

Iraq: 39%

Georgia: 10%

Senegal: 10%

Azerbaijan: 10%

Cameroon: 11%

Uganda: 10%

Albania: 10%

Armenia: 10%

Nepal: 10%

Sint Maarten: 10%

Falkland Islands: 41%

Gabon: 10%

Kuwait: 10%

Togo: 10%

Suriname: 10%

Belize: 10%

Papua New Guinea: 10%

Malawi: 17%

Liberia: 10%

British Virgin Islands: 10%

Afghanistan: 10%

Zimbabwe: 18%

Benin: 10%

Barbados: 10%

Monaco: 10%

Syria: 41%

Uzbekistan: 10%

Republic of the Congo: 10%

Djibouti: 10%

French Polynesia: 10%

Cayman Islands: 10%

Kosovo: 10%

Curaçao: 10%

Vanuatu: 22%

Rwanda: 10%

Sierra Leone: 10%

Mongolia: 10%

San Marino: 10%

Antigua and Barbuda: 10%

Bermuda: 10%

Eswatini: 10%

Marshall Islands: 10%

Saint Pierre and Miquelon: 50%

Saint Kitts and Nevis: 10%

Turkmenistan: 10%

Grenada: 10%

Sudan: 10%

Turks and Caicos Islands: 10%

Aruba: 10%

Montenegro: 10%

Saint Helena: 10%

Kyrgyzstan: 10%

Yemen: 10%

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 10%

Niger: 10%

Saint Lucia: 10%

Nauru: 30%

Equatorial Guinea: 13%

Iran: 10%

Libya: 31%

Samoa: 10%

Guinea: 10%

Timor-Leste: 10%

Montserrat: 10%

Chad: 13%

Mali: 10%

Maldives: 10%

Tajikistan: 10%

Cabo Verde: 10%

Burundi: 10%

Guadeloupe: 10%

Bhutan: 10%

Martinique: 10%

Tonga: 10%

Mauritania: 10%

Dominica: 10%

Micronesia: 10%

Gambia: 10%

French Guiana: 10%

Christmas Island: 10%

Andorra: 10%

Central African Republic: 10%

Solomon Islands: 10%

Mayotte: 10%

Anguilla: 10%

Cocos (Keeling) Islands: 10%

Eritrea: 10%

Cook Islands: 10%

South Sudan: 10%

Comoros: 10%

Kiribati: 10%

São Tomé and Príncipe: 10%

Norfolk Island: 29%

Gibraltar: 10%

Tuyalu: 10%

British Indian Ocean Territory: 10%

Tokelau: 10%

Guinea-Bissau: 10%

Svalbard and Jan Mayen: 10%

Heard and McDonald Islands: 10%

Réunion: 37%

26 mins ago07:45 Adam Toms

China promises 'countermeasures'

After Trump's annoucement, China’s commerce ministry said Beijing would “resolutely take countermeasures to safeguard its own rights and interests”.

But it did not outline an exact responses.

The country has reacted to earlier rounds of higher tariffs by imposing higher duties on US exports of farm products and limiting exports of strategically important minerals used for high-tech industries, such as electric vehicles.

The ministry added: “China urges the United States to immediately cancel its unilateral tariff measures and properly resolve differences with its trading partners through equal dialogue."

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China has been hit with 54% tariffs (Image: Getty)

31 mins ago07:40 Alice Scarsi

Asian markets plunge

The Asian market plunged in the wake of the reciprocal tariffs announcement made by Donald Trump in the White House's Rose Garden on Wednesday.

This declaration of trade war appeared to have a negative effect on the Asian markets, which opened lower.

Japan's benchmark stock index, the Nikkei 225, was down by 4% in early trading. South Korea’s Kospi index slumped 1.9% soon after opening, while in Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 fell 1.8%.

Australia's ASX 200 opened around 2% lower. Mr Trump presented the global levies, which he calls “reciprocal tariffs”, claiming the US would do to its trading partners what they had been doing to it for decades.

34 mins ago07:37 Alice Scarsi

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