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05.44 EDT Trump tariffs kick in, spurring more market carnage Good morning and welcome to the US politics live blog. My name is Tom Ambrose and I'll be bringing you all the latest news over the next few hours. We start with news that president Donald Trump's new tariffs have gone into full effect today. When Trump announced the latest round of tariffs on 2 April, he declared that the US would now tax nearly all of America's trading partners at a minimum of 10% - and impose steeper rates for countries that he says run trade surpluses with the…
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