Elliot Lawry

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4,557 appearances 48 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 5d ago

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The Daily Aus · Why Trump is accusing Australia of modern slavery · 26 Jul 2026 podcast

And the reason that tariffs are used is to try to encourage companies to use locally made products or locally sourced ingredients, for example. matched

And that idea is that it supports the local industry. matched

That is the reason that's given. matched

But with Trump, he has also argued that matched

He's had these sort of negative experiences with his trading partners around the world. matched

And so in this scenario, it's also kind of being used as a punishment on the trading partners. matched

Yeah. matched

Well, when I was researching this, I found maybe like 13, 14, 15 different announcements and I was working through them to work out what were the kind of big flashpoints that have led up to this one. matched

And it all started back in April 2025 when he got up and he held that big card. matched

Do you remember that? matched

Yeah, the Liberation Day tariffs. matched

And that's when he put a 10% tariff on most goods produced around the world, kind of for the reasons that I gave earlier on. matched

Then in February of this year, so we're jumping forward almost a year from Liberation Day, the Supreme Court in the US actually struck down those tariffs. matched

They found them to be unlawful. matched

Trump then used another set of laws and powers to matched

imposed temporary tariffs of 10% again. matched

So they went down, they were brought back up. matched

And then in June 2026, so we're talking only a month ago, really, the US proposed a new tariff of 12.5%, which is what has now come in as of last week. matched

Yeah, they were temporary powers that he used, which is why he's had to create these new ones again because the temporary powers only took him up to the end of July. matched

Mm-hmm. matched

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