Clare Byrne

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With Aviva Insurance.

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Well, the United States has proposed tariffs of up to 12.5% on imports coming from 60 economies.

The move marks a major step in Donald Trump's push to reinstate his country-specific tariffs that were mostly struck down by the Supreme Court.

Daniel McConnell is editor with The Business Post and joins me now.

Good morning, Daniel.

So this is Donald Trump and his administration really trying to find ways, is it, of levying new tariffs on countries after the Supreme Court thwarted his earlier ones?

So who decides whether forced labour is being used to make these products in these jurisdictions?

Who runs the rule over it?

So if you're in the American administration and you're working for Donald Trump, what you've done is found quite a clever way to levy tariffs against those who you see as your economic enemies.

Well, a lot of effort and energy has been spent, hasn't it, on protecting the pharma sector.

So are you saying that alarm bells will be ringing again on foot of this announcement?

Daniel, thank you very much for bringing us up to speed on that one.

That's Daniel McConnell, who's editor of the Business Post.

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