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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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«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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Zelenskyy tells Kremlin leaders they should ‘know where the bomb shelters are’ in ominous warning
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned leaders in Moscow that they should familiarize themselves with their nearest bomb shelter in an ominous warning Thursday.
Zelenskyy made the comment in an interview with Axios following his Wednesday address to the United Nations General Assembly. The Ukrainian leader says he received express permission from President Donald Trump to strike energy and infrastructure targets within Russia.
He also said he had requested that the U.S. supply Ukraine with a weapons system that he claimed would force Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table, though he declined to name the weapon.
«They have to know where the bomb shelters are,» Zelenskyy said of Kremlin leaders. «They need it. If they will not stop the war, they will need it in any case.»
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Kremlin leaders that they should find their nearest bomb shelter. (Danylo Antoniuk/Anadolu via Getty Images)
«They have to know that we in Ukraine, each day, we will answer. If they attack us, we will answer them,» he added.
Zelenskyy remained vague when speaking about the weapons system he had requested from the U.S.
RUSSIA SHIFTS FROM TALK TO ACTION, TARGETING NATO HOMELAND AMID FEARS OF GLOBAL WAR
«President Trump knows, I told him yesterday what we need, one thing,» Zelenskyy told the outlet.
«We need it, but it doesn’t mean that we will use it. Because if we’ll have it, I think it’s additional pressure on Putin to sit and speak,» he said.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Donald Trump at the United Nations earlier this week. (Ukranian Presidency/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Trump this week shocked the international community when he flipped his position on the war in Ukraine and said he thinks Kyiv could re-take all of its occupied land that was seized by Russia.
«I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and win all of Ukraine back in its original form,» he said Tuesday on social media.
«With time, patience, and the financial support of Europe and, in particular, NATO, the original borders from where this war started, is very much an option,» Trump added. «Why not?»
Trump argued this week that Ukraine can win its war against Russia. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
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This position is a stark reversal from where he stood when he first re-entered office and, in an infamous February Oval Office meeting told Zelenskyy he «[didn’t] have the cards» to take on Russia, and repeatedly suggested Kyiv would need to make significant concessions to end the war.
Fox News’ Caitlin McFall contributed to this report
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Former FBI Director James Comey has declared himself «not afraid» of President Donald Trump’s Justice Department after being indicted Thursday for allegedly lying to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding.
«My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn’t imagine ourselves living any other way,» Comey, who denies the allegations, said in an Instagram video. «We will not live on our knees, and you shouldn’t either. Somebody that I love dearly recently said that fear is the tool of a tyrant, and she’s right.»
«But I’m not afraid,» Comey added.
COMEY INDICTED FOR ALLEGED FALSE STATEMENTS, OBSTRUCTION OF CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDING
Former FBI Director James Comey is sworn in prior to testifying before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on June 8, 2017. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
Comey was indicted by a grand jury following a probe centered on whether he lied to Congress during his Sept. 30, 2020, testimony about his handling of the original Trump–Russia investigation at the FBI, known inside the bureau as «Crossfire Hurricane.» The indictment also alleges Comey made a false statement when he testified that he did not authorize someone at the FBI to be an anonymous source. According to the indictment, that statement was false.
«My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system,» Comey continued. «I’m innocent. So let’s have a trial and keep the faith.»
Patrick J. Fitzgerald will represent Comey in the case and said his client denies the charges.
«Jim Comey denies the charges filed today in their entirety,» Fitzgerald said in a statement. «We look forward to vindicating him in the courtroom.»
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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SEEKS TO INDICT FORMER FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY FOR ALLEGEDLY LYING TO CONGRESS
Fitzgerald previously served as special counsel in the Valerie Plame CIA leak probe and as U.S. attorney in Chicago, where he prosecuted former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted in a corruption scandal in 2011.
The indictment marks a stunning legal turn for the man who once led the bureau through the Hillary Clinton email controversy and Russia investigation.
Comey will reportedly turn himself in on Friday, and his arraignment is set for 10 a.m. on Oct. 9 before District Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff, a judge appointed by former President Joe Biden.
President Trump took to Truth Social Friday to celebrate the indictment and declared Comey a «dirty copy.»
«Whether you like Corrupt James Comey or not, and I can’t imagine too many people liking him, HE LIED!» Trump wrote. «It is not a complex lie, it’s a very simple, but IMPORTANT one. There is no way he can explain his way out of it.»
Trump said Comey got «unexpectedly caught» but is off to a good start with the case being assigned to a Biden-appointed judge.
«He knew exactly what he was saying, and that it was a very serious and far-reaching lie for which a very big price must be paid!» Trump wrote.
The indictment alleges that Comey obstructed a congressional investigation into the disclosure of sensitive information in violation of 18 USC 1505.
Former FBI Director James Comey speaks onstage in New York in 2023. Comey was indicted on federal charges of lying to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding. (Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)
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Fox News Digital also exclusively reported that former CIA Director John Brennan is under criminal investigation related to the Trump–Russia probe.
Under federal law, prosecutors have five years to bring a charge, with the five-year mark occurring Tuesday.
The case is being handled by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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Los ojos azules casi desaparecieron en Roma durante el Imperio: qué reveló un análisis genético
Un análisis genético reciente reveló un dato sorprendente: los ojos azules, presentes en una proporción relevante en Europa antes de la consolidación del Imperio Romano, experimentaron un descenso drástico durante ese período. Esta investigación abre nuevas preguntas sobre la composición genética de las poblaciones antiguas y los movimientos migratorios que modelaron la historia de Roma.
Antes de la expansión imperial, alrededor de uno de cada cinco habitantes de la Roma antigua tenía ojos azules. Sin embargo, durante el Imperio Romano ese porcentaje cayó a un 4%. Según datos publicados en Xataka, este fenómeno llamó la atención de genetistas y demógrafos, ya que cuesta explicar que una característica físicamente visible haya cambiado de modo tan marcado en tan pocas generaciones.
El investigador Davide Piffer recopiló el ADN de más de 4.000 individuos antiguos, lo que permitió comparar la prevalencia de ojos azules en distintas etapas de la historia europea. De acuerdo con el reporte, los romanos del período preimperial tenían una importante presencia de ojos claros, mientras que en la Roma medieval el porcentaje volvía a situarse cerca del 21%. El desplome del periodo imperial aparece como una excepción.
Según Piffer, la explicación se halla en los flujos migratorios y en la mezcla de poblaciones. En los primeros siglos de Roma, la base genética principal era anatolia, pero había una influencia apreciable de grupos yamnas procedentes de las estepas, que solían tener una mayor proporción de ojos claros. Cuando el Imperio adquirió su máxima extensión territorial, llegaron nuevos migrantes desde regiones internas y orientales, en quienes predominaban los ojos marrones. Solo tras la caída del Imperio, el ingreso de grupos germánicos, como los longobardos y ostrogodos, favoreció el regreso de la pigmentación clara.
A nivel molecular, el color de los ojos depende de dos genes muy próximos en el cromosoma 15: OCA2, que controla la melanina en el iris, y HERC2, que lo regula. Según Davide Piffer, en los individuos con ojos marrones, HERC2 activa OCA2 para producir pigmento. En cambio, una mutación específica limita esa función, lo que da lugar a una menor cantidad de melanina, percibida como tono azul o verdoso.
La genética permite establecer una “huella” en el ADN que indica la probable pigmentación ocular de personas de tiempos remotos. Esta posibilidad llevó a algunos investigadores a afirmar que, en realidad, no existen datos concluyentes sobre la prevalencia de ojos claros en la antigua Roma. El demógrafo Lyman Stone analizó la fiabilidad de las muestras y detectó límites inherentes a los métodos actuales.
De acuerdo con Stone, la población de la Roma imperial integró a muchos inmigrantes de orígenes diversos, en los que predominaba el color de ojos oscuro. Además, las propias fuentes genéticas disponibles podrían no ser suficientes para dar cuenta de la diversidad real, por lo que cualquier afirmación termina bajo revisión permanente.
Según National Geographic, estos estudios se insertan en un debate más amplio sobre la evolución de los rasgos fenotípicos en Europa. Por ejemplo, hasta la Edad del Hierro, la mayoría de los europeos tenía piel oscura, y la pigmentación clara es mucho más reciente de lo que suele creerse.
El análisis de restos emblemáticos, como el Hombre de Cheddar en el Reino Unido, refuerza la idea de que la pigmentación clara de los ojos y piel apareció antes de la Edad del Hierro en algunos individuos, pero solo se consolidó gracias a múltiples procesos migratorios y evolutivos posteriores. A pesar de que la tecnología genética actual ofrece una herramienta poderosa para desentrañar el pasado físico de Europa, la interpretación de los resultados requiere cautela por la degradación del material genético y la limitada representatividad de las muestras.
En síntesis, el estudio del ADN antiguo demuestra que la dinámica del Imperio Romano alteró de manera notable la distribución de los ojos azules en la región. Los datos muestran que factores como migraciones, prestigio cultural de ciertos rasgos y encuentro entre poblaciones modelaron la composición genética de los habitantes. Las oscilaciones en la proporción de ojos claros ilustran cómo características visibles pueden desaparecer en contextos históricos concretos, para luego resurgir gracias a nuevas olas migratorias.
Actualmente, la genética continúa ampliando el entendimiento sobre los cambios fenotípicos europeos. La reducción de la proporción de ojos azules en el Imperio Romano es solo un ejemplo de cómo la historia genética se construye con descubrimientos inesperados y revela una Europa antigua diversa, en constante transformación.
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