Trump’s steel and aluminium tariffs kick in

Keir Starmersir

Like everybody else, I'm disappointed to see global tariffs in relation to steel and aluminum but we will take a pragmatic approach,

said UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer

Tariffs are taxes. They are bad for business and worse for consumers,

she said, warning the economic disruption put jobs at stake and would send prices higher

We're going to win that financial battle."

Repeating his threat to hit European cars with tariffs, he added later

They're doing what they should be doing perhaps for the European Union but it does create ill will,

he said

The president wants steel and aluminum in America. And let me be clear — nothing's going to stop that until we've got a big, strong domestic steel and aluminum capability. And by the way, he's going to add copper to that mix, too,

he said in an interview on Fox Business

President Trump is waging a global battle to reshape the trading system, aiming to reduce trade deficits and revitalize domestic manufacturing,

Patrick Cronin, chair for Asia-Pacific security at the Washington-based Hudson Institute, told Yonhap News Agency via email

The Korean government, together with the private sector, is fully prepared for this,

he was quoted as saying in the WSJ interview

It's going to be very costly for people to take advantage of this country. They can't come in and steal our money and steal our jobs, and take our factories and take our businesses, and expect not to be punished,

he said during a press availability earlier this month

Korea's average tariff is four times higher. Think of that ... four times higher, and we give so much help militarily and so many other ways to Korea. But that's what happens,

Trump said during an address to Congress last week

These tariffs send a strong if disruptive message: the United States is determined to reverse its industrial decline and reclaim some of its former strength — when it once produced nearly half of the world's steel and 70 percent of its aluminum,

he added

Mélanie Jolyforeign Affairs Minister

This is going to be a day to day fight. This is now the second round of unjustified tariffs leveled against Canada,

said Mélanie Joly, Canada's foreign affairs minister

Chuck Schumersenate Democratic Leader

Donald Trump knows his policies could wreck the economy, but he’s doing it anyway,

said Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York

The EU’s punitive action completely disregards the national security imperatives of the United States – and indeed international security – and is yet another indicator that the EU’s trade and economic policies are out of step with reality,

he said in a statement

The EU was set up in order to take advantage of the United States,

Trump said

The United States of America is going to take back a lot of what was stolen from it by other countries and, frankly, by incompetent U.S. leadership,

he told reporters in the Oval Office

We do have a massive deficit with Ireland because Ireland was very smart. They took our pharmaceutical companies away from presidents that didn't know what they were doing,

Trump said

We are in a trade war and when a trade war begins, it tends to sustain itself and feed itself,

Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said on French television

I'm ready to sit down with President Trump at the appropriate time, under a position where there's respect for Canadian sovereignty and we're working for a common approach,

Carney said while touring a steel plant in Ontario

Dominic LeBlancfinance Minister

We will not stand idly by while our iconic steel and aluminum industries are being unfairly targeted,

Canada's Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc said

Whatever they charge us, we're charging them,

Trump told reporters at the White House