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Which countries impose the highest tariffs on the US?
President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on U.S. trading partners throughout the world Wednesday, saying the U.S. would add a 10% minimum baseline tax on all products coming in.
The Trump administration has identified what it has called the «Dirty 15» as the 15 nations with the largest trade deficit with the U.S., meaning the trade partnerships by which Washington imports more from countries than those nations import from the U.S.
But the White House has also flagged what it describes as other «unfair» trading practices, chiefly implemented through tariffs on U.S. goods.
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President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Washington, as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick listens. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
CHINA
Washington and Beijing have been in a trade war since the first Trump administration when the first-term president imposed 25% tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese goods starting in April 2018.
Beijing responded the next day by slapping reciprocal tariffs on 106 U.S. products worth $50 billion, mostly targeting U.S. agricultural products worth some $16.5 billion.
The tariff war would continue with repeated back-and-forth escalating tariffs before some tariff relief was agreed upon beginning in January 2020.
By January 2021, the U.S.-China Business Council (USCBC) found that the U.S. had lost nearly a quarter of a million jobs.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick holds a chart as President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
The Biden administration and China largely maintained the status quo established during Trump’s initial trade war.
But Trump threatened to hit Beijing with 60% tariffs on the campaign trail and, by February 2025, just weeks after his inauguration, he slapped China with a blanket 20% tariff on all Chinese imports.
Beijing again responded with up to 15% tariffs on more than $33 billion in U.S. agricultural products, including U.S.-grown chicken, wheat, corn and cotton.
China’s trade deficit with the U.S. is $295.4 billion.
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a debate on the conclusions of the Dec. 14-15, 2023, European Council and preparations for the extraordinary European Council scheduled for Feb. 1, 2024, at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, Jan. 17, 2024. (Frederick Florin/AFP via Getty Images)
EUROPEAN UNION
The European Union, which is no stranger to Trump’s tariff war, is bracing for a much bigger battle this time around after enduring metal trade spats during his first term.
Trump has already announced a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum imports, which directly hits the European Union, the U.S.’s largest trading partner, along with a 25% tariff on imported cars, which will affect nations like Germany.
The EU said it could impose retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. of up to $28 billion.
The U.S. had a trade deficit of $235.6 billion with the European Union in 2024, which Trump has called «an atrocity.»
But it is not only the difference in trade agreements that has irked the president.
Last month, the White House said specific levies charged by various trading partners are making it «virtually impossible» for U.S. products to be exported, including a 50% tax on American dairy products sold by EU nations.
European Union flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, Sept. 28, 2022. (Reuters/Yves Herman//File Photo)
But expert Andrew Hale, a senior policy analyst in trade policy with the Heritage Foundation, explained that the dairy industry in particular has massive barriers stopping Europe from being able to lower prices to match American products.
«They have a very, very protected agricultural market,» Hale said, highlighting Europe’s strict husbandry practices. «Europeans would not be able to compete.»
Hale explained that norms like overcrowding and poor conditions frequently found in the U.S.’s poultry, dairy and pork industries in mass farming are barred in Europe.
Animal spacing regulations and bans related to hormone injections have required a completely different type of farming that favors quality treatment of the animals versus mass production, which makes European meats and dairy products more expensive than American products and makes it unlikely that the EU drops this tax.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks with the media on Parliament Hill after a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Canada-U.S. Relations and National Security in Ottawa Thursday, March 27, 2025. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)
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CANADA
The White House has also taken aim at Canada, which is expected to see more tariffs fired at it Wednesday and said it has a 300% tariff on American butter and cheese.
Hale explained that while this is technically true, it is a tariff rate-quota that was negotiated during the first Trump administration under the revised NAFTA agreement, which became the United States Mexico Canada (USMCA), and one which has never been implemented.
The massive tariff would only be used if U.S. exports exceed negotiated tariff rate quotas. Otherwise, daily sales to Canada face no tariffs under the USMCA.
Canada and the U.S. in recent weeks have entered into a tariff war after Trump announced a blanket 25% tariff on 25% on Canadian goods and 10% on its energy.
Ottawa, in return, imposed 25% reciprocal tariffs on $30 billion in U.S. goods, mostly targeting the agriculture sector.
It has threatened to hit the U.S. with tariffs on $95 billion in U.S. imports if Trump imposes more taxes on the country’s northern neighbor.
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HOW IT ENDS
«Everyone needs to do what Israel has just done, bring down zero tariffs against the U.S. And then we can have absolute free trade,» Hale said. «That’s fair, and we can all have market access.
«When you have stupid tariffs, like tariffing stuff you don’t grow and make, that’s just basically being unfair.»
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Three alleged narco-terrorists were killed in a U.S. strike on a drug smuggling vessel affiliated with Colombia’s National Liberation Army, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Sunday.
The «lethal kinetic strike» happened Friday in international waters at the direction of President Donald Trump, Hegseth wrote in a post on X.
«The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was traveling along a known narco-trafficking route, and was transporting substantial amounts of narcotics,» Hegseth wrote. «There were three male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel during the strike—which was conducted in international waters.»
«All three terrorists were killed and no U.S. forces were harmed in this strike,» he added.
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Hegseth also shared unclassified video showing the moment of the strike.
The vessel was linked to Colombia’s National Liberation Army, known as Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), Hegseth said. (Department of War)
Colombia’s Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) is a Designated Terrorist Organization. Hegseth likened the Colombian rebel group to the Al Qaeda terror group founded by Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.
Hegseth said the vessel was trafficking narcotics. (Department of War)
«These cartels are the Al Qaeda of the Western Hemisphere, using violence, murder and terrorism to impose their will, threaten our national security and poison our people,» Hegseth wrote. «The United States military will treat these organizations like the terrorists they are—they will be hunted, and killed, just like Al Qaeda.»
Hegseth attends a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group, after a meeting of NATO Defence Ministers at the Alliance headquarters, in Brussels, Belgium, on Oct. 15, 2025. (Reuters/Yves Herman)
Colombian President Gustavo Petro disputed that the vessel was affiliated with ELN, calling it a fishing boat that belonged to a «humble family.»
«The fisherman’s boat from Santa Marta was not from the ELN; it belonged to a humble family, lovers of the sea, from which they drew their food,» Petro wrote in a post on X. «What do you say to that family? Explain to me why you helped assassinate a humble fisherman from Santa Marta, the land where Bolívar died, and which they say is the heart of the world.»
«What do you say to the family of the fisherman Alejandro Carranza? He was a humble human being,» Petro continued.
TRUMP TOUTS ANOTHER US STRIKE NEAR VENEZUELA THAT KILLED SIX ALLEGED DRUG SMUGGLERS
The Friday strike brings the death toll from the Trump administration’s military campaign against suspected drug-smuggling vessels in the region to at least 31. The operations began last month and are part of Trump’s broader effort to dismantle transnational cartels by force.
On Thursday, the U.S. military carried out a strike on what Trump later called a «very large drug-carrying submarine» in the Caribbean, killing two suspected narco-terrorists and capturing two others alive.
Fox News previously confirmed that two survivors were rescued by the U.S. Navy after the strike and were being held aboard an American warship.
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A separate strike on Tuesday killed six suspected smugglers aboard a vessel off the coast of Venezuela.
Fox News Digital’s Louis Casiano and Jasmine Baehr contributed to this report.
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En un histórico balotaje y sin el MAS por primera vez en 20 años, Bolivia da un brusco giro a la derecha
Los bolivianos elegirán este domingo a su nuevo presidente entre el derechista Jorge Tuto Quiroga y el centrista Rodrigo Paz.
No se trata de una elección más. Es un histórico balotaje que pondrá fin a 20 años de dominio absoluto del izquierdista Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS) de Evo Morales, hoy reducido a una mínima expresión y con su líder recluido en su bastión de Chapare para evitar una orden de arresto en una causa por trata de personas.
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Bolivia eligió ya un cambio al dejar fuera de esta segunda vuelta al MAS, dividido y con escasísimo poder en el futuro Congreso. En medio de una crisis económica caracterizada por una inflación del 23% anual, una incipiente recesión, falta de divisas y escasez de combustible, los bolivianos deberán decidir si este giro ideológico se detendrá en el centro o avanzará hacia una derecha más dura.
“Es una votación histórica porque es la primera vez que llegamos a una segunda vuelta y porque es el final de 20 años del ciclo izquierdista en el país”, dijo a TN el analista y periodista boliviano Robert Brockmann.
El balotaje es un mecanismo electoral contemplado en la Constitución de 2009, aprobada durante el gobierno de Morales y a quien sucedió el presidente saliente, Luis Arce, enemistado con su mentor y con una impopularidad récord.
Quien gane estas elecciones asumirá el 8 de noviembre próximo por un período de cinco años.
Bolivia elige entre el centro y la derecha
Un total de 7,9 millones de bolivianos están habilitados para votar este domingo. Otros 369.000 lo harán en el exterior. Las urnas se abrirán a las 08:00 locales y el cierre está previsto para las 16:00 (una hora menos que en la Argentina).
El candidato presidencial Jorge «Tuto» Quiroga se dirige a sus simpatizantes durante un mitin de cierre de campaña antes de la segunda vuelta electoral, el miércoles 15 de octubre de 2025, en La Paz, Bolivia. (AP Foto/Natacha Pisarenko)
En la primera vuelta, celebradas el 17 de agosto, Paz obtuvo un sorpresivo primer lugar con un 32,06% de los votos, seguido de Quiroga con el 26,70%.
Quiroga, de la derechista Alianza Libre y que ya fue presidente en el período 2001/2002, es el favorito según algunas encuestas, sobre el senador centrista y candidato del Partido Demócrata Cristiano (PDC), Rodrigo Paz.
Pero las encuestas han fracasado en sus pronósticos en la primera vuelta. Entonces Paz, hijo del expresidente Jaime Paz Zamora (1989-/93), figuraba entre un lejano tercer y quinto lugar en los sondeos. En silencio, terminó por dar la gran sorpresa de los comicios, algo que analistas estiman que podría volver a repetir en este balotaje.
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“La situación es diferente. La elección se decidirá entre dos candidatos que no polarizan a la sociedad. Son más o menos lo mismo. Los dos son liberales. Quiroga es claramente de derecha o centroderecha y Paz es de una izquierda demoliberal, una especie de socialdemocracia”, dijo Brockmann
Los programas económicos de ambos candidatos no difieren mucho entre sí. Los dos buscan terminar con 20 años de hegemonía socialista bajo una grave crisis, pero evitan hablar de un “shock económico”. Las propuestas se basan en planes neoliberales y un acercamiento a Estados Unidos.
Quiroga apuesta por una agenda de libre mercado, relanzamiento productivo e independencia del poder judicial, con atención a la educación y las instituciones democráticas. Paz propone la descentralización administrativa, un modelo de “capitalismo para todos” y una reforma judicial con tolerancia cero a la corrupción. Rodrigo Paz, candidato del Partido Demócrata Cristiano. (Foto: REUTERS/Claudia Morales)
Pero ambos coinciden en mantener los subsidios a los combustibles (uno de los grandes temas de debate) sólo para el transporte público y sectores vulnerables, así como continuar con los programas sociales en un contexto de fuerte precariedad social y con un movimiento indígena que abandonó al MAS y deberá optar por un nuevo modelo de gobierno.
Cualquiera que gane, el cambio será rotundo tras dos décadas de socialismo del siglo XXI.
La derecha tendrá mayoría en el nuevo Congreso
De cara al futuro gobierno, el nuevo presidente deberá tratar de garantizar gobernabilidad. El Partido Demócrata Cristiano de Paz tendrá el número más alto de escaños con 16 senadores y 49 diputados, aunque sin asegurar una mayoría. La Alianza Libre de Quiroga será la segunda fuerza con 12 senadores y 39 diputados.
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La Alianza Popular, del disidente del MAS Andrónico Rodríguez, obtuvo ocho diputados, mientras que el hasta ahora oficialista MAS apenas dos. Morales quedó inhabilitado para participar en las elecciones y llamó a anular el voto. Los votos nulos rozaron el 20% en la primera vuelta.
En resumen cuatro partidos de derecha (los de Paz, Quiroga y otros dos minoritarios) tendrán 119 diputados sobre 130 y la totalidad de los 36 senadores, lo que vaticina una mayor gobernabilidad para el presidente que resulte electo si logra concertar alianzas.
“El problema va a ser si el próximo presidente desmantela el sistema de subsidios a los combustibles. Eso provocaría el encarecimiento de las cosas en un contexto social difícil. La economía es muy precaria. Si empeora aún más, puede no durar mucho el nuevo gobierno. Si fracasa, podríamos estar pensando en el regreso de Evo en poco tiempo”, concluyó Breckmann.
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SADDLE BROOK, N.J. – With Election Day fast approaching, the Republican nominee in one of only two races for governor in the nation this year is fired up.
«Championship teams finish strong,» Jack Ciattarelli told a crowd of supporters jam-packed into a diner in this northern New Jersey town earlier this week. «Let’s win this race.»
Ciattarelli, who’s making his third straight run for Garden State governor and who nearly upset Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy four years ago, has good reason to be confident.
In a state where registered Democrats still outnumber Republicans despite a GOP surge in registration this decade, two new public opinion polls released this week indicated Ciattarelli narrowing the gap with Democratic gubernatorial nominee Rep. Mikie Sherrill in the race to succeed the term-limited Murphy.
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Jack Ciattarelli, the Republican nominee for governor in New Jersey, speaks to supporters at a diner in Saddle Brook, N.J. on Oct. 15, 2025. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
The slightly fresher of the two surveys, a Fox News poll conducted Oct. 10–14, put Sherrill at 50% support among likely voters, with Ciattarelli at 45%. Sherrill’s 5-point advantage was down from an 8-point lead in Fox News’ September survey in New Jersey.
New Jersey and Virginia are the only two states to hold gubernatorial showdowns in the year after a presidential election, and the contests traditionally grab outsized attention and are viewed as political barometers ahead of the following year’s midterm elections.
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And this year, they’re being viewed to a large degree as ballot-box referendums on President Donald Trump’s unprecedented and combustible second-term agenda.
While Democrats have long dominated federal and state legislative elections in blue-leaning New Jersey, Republicans are very competitive in gubernatorial contests, winning five out of the past 10 elections.
President Donald Trump, seen speaking during a campaign event at Wildwood Beach in Wildwood, New Jersey, May 11, 2024, will headline a tele-rally for Jack Ciattarelli, the 2025 Republican gubernatorial nominee in the Garden State. (Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
And Trump made major gains in New Jersey in last year’s presidential election, losing the state by only six percentage points, a major improvement over his 16-point deficit four years earlier.
Ciattarelli, interviewed by Fox News Digital Wednesday in Bayonne, New Jersey, noted that he «made big gains» in his 2021 showing «in Hudson County and Passaic County,» two long-time Democratic Party strongholds.
«And the President did very, very well in ’24 in those very same counties. And if you take a look at who’s been endorsing me, including some very prominent Democrats here in Hudson County, people want change,» Ciattarelli emphasized.
But Ciattarelli is also aiming to energize Republican base voters in what’s likely to be a low-turnout election.
Multiple sources confirmed to Fox News that Trump will hold tele-rallies with Ciattarelli ahead of Election Day. Trump’s teaming up with Ciattarelli may help energize MAGA supporters, many of whom are low propensity voters who often skip casting ballots in non-presidential election years.
Republican gubernatorial candidate in Ohio Vivek Ramaswamy headlines a campaign event for New Jersey GOP nominee for governor Jack Ciattarelli, on Oct. 15, 2025, in Saddle Brook, N.J. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
And on Wednesday, Ciattarelli was joined at his diner stop, where there was an overflow crowd of a couple of hundred people outside, by Vivek Ramaswamy, the MAGA rockstar who is running for governor next year in his home state of Ohio.
Ramaswamy, the multimillionaire biotech entrepreneur and conservative commentator who pushed an «America First 2.0» platform as he ran for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination before ending his bid and becoming one of Trump’s top supporters and surrogates, told Ciattarelli, «We’re going in Ohio next year, but you’ve got to pave the path this year. We’re counting on you.»
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Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin, commenting on why Republicans feel bullish about the New Jersey showdown, raised concerns.
«New Jersey is the best place, probably, for Donald Trump to actually stop the Democratic momentum — or at least minimize the Democratic momentum that we’ve seen throughout this year,» Martin said in a Politico interview.
But the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) is confident of a Sherrill victory next month.
«As numerous polls show her holding a strong lead and earning more than 50% of the vote, Mikie Sherrill is rising to meet the moment in this incredibly competitive race,» DGA Spokesperson Izzi Levy told Fox News. «It’s clear that Mikie has the momentum, and that New Jersey voters are all-in to reject Ciattarelli for a third time this November.»
New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial nominee Rep. Mikie Sherrill, right, and Republican nominee Jack Ciattarelli, on the stage moments at the start of their second and final debate, on Oct. 8, 2025, in New Brunswick, N.J. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News Digital)
While Trump isn’t on the ballot, he’s loomed large over the New Jersey gubernatorial election.
At last week’s second and final debate, Sherrill charged that her GOP rival had «shown zero signs of standing up to this president. In fact, the president himself called Jack 100% MAGA, and he’s shown every sign of being that.»
Asked whether he considered himself part of the MAGA movement, Ciattarelli said he was «part of a New Jersey movement.»
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When asked to grade the president’s performance so far during his second term, Ciattarelli said, «I’d certainly give the president an A. I think he’s right about everything that he’s doing.»
«I think that tells us all we need to know about who Jack Ciattarelli’s supporting. I give him an F right now,» Sherrill responded, as she pointed to New Jersey’s high cost of living.
Rep. Mikie Sherrill, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee in New Jersey, takes questions from reporters following a debate on Oct. 8, 2025, in New Brunswick, N.J. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
The race in New Jersey was rocked a couple of weeks ago by a report that the National Personnel Records Center, which is a branch of the National Archives and Records Administration, mistakenly released Sherrill’s improperly redacted military personnel files, which included private information like her Social Security number, to a Ciattarelli ally.
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But Sherrill’s military records indicated that the United States Naval Academy blocked her from taking part in her 1994 graduation amid a cheating scandal.
The showdown was jolted again last week after Sherrill’s allegations that Ciattarelli was «complicit» with pharmaceutical companies in the opioid deaths of tens of thousands of New Jerseyans, as she pointed to the medical publishing company he owned that pushed content promoting the use of opioids as a low-risk treatment for chronic pain.
This week, Trump set off a political hand grenade in the race, as he «terminated» billions of federal dollars for the Gateway Project, which is funding a new train tunnel under the Hudson River connecting New Jersey and New York.
Sherrill, holding a news conference Thursday at a major commuter rail station just a few miles from the site of the tunnels in one of the busiest train corridors in the nation, called the project «critical» as she took aim at Trump and Ciattarelli.
«I’m fighting for the people of New Jersey. He’s fighting to excuse Trump. It’s unacceptable,» Sherrill charged.
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New Jersey traditionally elects a governor from the party out of power in the White House, which this year favors the Democrats.
But Garden State voters haven’t elected a governor from the same party in three straight elections in over a half century, which would favor the Republicans.
One of those political trends will be busted in next month’s election.
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