Trump tariffs dwell: Jaguar Land Rover pauses shipments to US as 10% tariff kicks in for UK

A White House official has confirmed that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to visit on Monday.

Mr Netanyahu will discuss recently announced tariffs with president Donald Trump and the visit will likely also include discussions on Iran and Israel’s war against Hamas.

Howmet Aerospace, which supplies parts for planes built by Airbus and Boeing , may halt some shipments if they are impacted by tariffs announced by US president Donald Trump, according to a letter seen by news agency Reuters.

Pittsburgh-based Howmet said in the letter to customers that it has declared a force majeure event, a legal practice that allows parties to a contract to avoid their obligations if hit by unavoidable and unpredictable external circumstances, Reuters reported.

“Howmet will be excused from supplying any products or services that are impacted by this declared national emergency and/or the tariff executive order,” Howmet reportedly wrote in the letter.

Howmet declined to comment. Howmet is a supplier of critical metal components used across the $150 billion jetliner industry.

Jaguar Land Rover will pause shipments of its Britain-made cars to the United States for a month, it said on Saturday, as it considers how to mitigate the cost of president Donald Trump’s 25 per cent tariff.

Jaguar Land Rover, which is owned by India’s Tata Motors , confirmed the temporary export suspension after The Times newspaper reported the plan.

“As we work to address the new trading terms with our business partners, we are taking some short-term actions, including a shipment pause in April, as we develop our mid- to longer-term plans,” JLR said in a statement.

Britain’s car industry, which employs 200,000 people directly, is highly exposed to the new tariffs. The United States is the second-biggest importer of British-made cars after the European Union, with nearly a 20 per cent share, data from industry body SMMT shows.

Jaguar Land Rover, one of Britain’s biggest producers by volume, said in its statement that the US was an important market for its luxury brands. It sells 400,000 Range Rover Sports, Defenders and other models annually and exports to the US account for almost a quarter of sales.

While most UK goods are subject to a 10 per cent tariff, UK cars and car parts are subject to 25 per cent.

The Times reported that Jaguar Land Rover is thought to have a couple of months’ supply of cars already in the US, which will not be subject to the new tariffs.

President Donald Trump has said that the US needs to “hang tough” in light of his announcement to impose large tariffs on imports into America.

Posting on Truth Social on Saturday, Mr Trump admitted “it won’t be easy, but the end result will be historic”.

The full post said: “China has been hit much harder than the USA, not even close. They, and many other nations, have treated us unsustainably badly. We have been the dumb and helpless ‘whipping post’, but not any longer.

“We are bringing back jobs and businesses like never before. Already, more than five trillion dollars of investment, and rising fast. This is an economic revolution, and we will win. Hang tough, it won’t be easy, but the end result will be historic.

“We will make America great again.”

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has said it will “pause” shipments to the US as it works to “address the new trading terms” of president Donald Trump’s tariffs.

In a statement on Saturday, a JLR spokesperson said: “The USA is an important market for JLR’s luxury brands.

“As we work to address the new trading terms with our business partners, we are taking some short-term actions including a shipment pause in April, as we develop our mid to longer-term plans.”

The CEO of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, which describes itself as the U.S.’s largest commercial Bible and Christian book publisher, told The Wall Street Journal that it had been “all hands on deck,” after the president announced the tariffs on Wednesday.

Bibles are typically printed on thin paper stock and with presses that are largely located outside the U.S., according to The Journal.

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But that in turn means that many might opt out of paying higher prices, while businesses in America might cancel orders coming in from overseas to avoid paying those extra costs. That might mean raising prices elsewhere to reduce their losses.

Cheese, wine, whiskey, beer and fish could soar in price as a result.

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China’s state-run media has taken to the internet with AI-generated videos, featuring dancing robots and fraught consumers, to scold US President Donald Trump and tariffs they say threaten high inflation and economic distress for Americans.

“‘Liberation Day’, you promised us the stars. But tariffs killed our cheap Chinese cars,” an automated female voice sings in a video on the website of China’s CGTN, a state-run English-language broadcaster, over a shot of a woman at a kitchen table staring at an empty fork.

The short clip, referring to Trump’s use of “Liberation Day” for the day of his tariff announcement, was captioned with a warning: “Track is AI-generated. The debt crisis? 100 percent human-made.”

Another video posted on X by the state-run news agency Xinhua, also generated by artificial intelligence, shows a robot named TARIFF that chooses to self-destruct rather than follow its creator’s orders for high tariffs that bring “trade wars and unrest”.

China has sharply criticised the U.S. tariffs, which have triggered the biggest stock market rout since the pandemic, and retaliated on Friday with import duties and export curbs of its own.

Economists say consumers are likely to see higher prices due to the trade war and that the US economy could enter a downturn.

However, the CGTN video, which displays lyrics in English and Chinese over images of car factories and humanoid robots dancing in burned-out streets, makes a more dire assessment.

“You taxed each truck, you taxed each tire. Midwest burnin’ in your dumpster fire,” the automated voice sings.