Trump Unleashes 10% Baseline Tariff on All U.S. Trading Partners Starting April 5 — Hits ‘Worst Offenders’ with Even Tougher Measures April 9 — Here is the List of Countries and Their Corresponding Tariffs

The Gateway Pundit ^ | Apr. 2, 2025 5:15 pm | Jim Hᴏft

[SoConPubbie]

President Donald Trump announced today the implementation of a 10% baseline tariff on all imports, effective April 5, 2025. This decisive action aims to correct decades of unfair trade practices that have disadvantaged American workers and industries.

Speaking from the White House Rose Garden, President Trump proclaimed April 2 as “Liberation Day,” marking a new era of economic independence. He emphasized that this measure is essential to protect American jobs and revitalize domestic manufacturing.

“For too long, other nations have taken advantage of our open markets while imposing barriers to our products. Those days are over,” the President asserted.

Trump added via Fox News:

“American steel workers, auto workers, farmers and skilled craftsmen,” Trump said from the White House Rose Garden Wednesday afternoon. “We have a lot of them here with us today. They really suffered, gravely. They watched in anguish as foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories, and foreign scavengers have torn apart our once beautiful American dream. We had an American dream that you don’t hear so much about. You did four years ago, and you are now. But you don’t too often.”

“Now it’s our turn to prosper, and in so doing, use trillions and trillions of dollars to reduce our taxes and pay down our national debt,” he said. “And it will all happen very quickly. With today’s action, we are finally going to be able to make America great again, greater than ever before or. Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country and you see it happening already. We will supercharge our domestic industrial base.”

“For nations that treat us badly, we will calculate the combined rate of all their tariffs, nonmonetary barriers and other forms of cheating. And because we are being very kind, we will charge them approximately half of what they are and have been charging us. So the tariffs will be not a full reciprocal. I could have done that. Yes. But it would have been tough for a lot of countries,” he said.

“For decades, the United States slashed trade barriers on other countries, while those nations placed massive tariffs on our products and created outrageous non-monetary barriers to decimate our industries,” Trump said. “And in many cases, the non-monetary barriers were worse than the monetary ones. They manipulated their currencies, subsidized their exports, stole our intellectual property, imposed exorbitant taxes to disadvantage our products, adopted unfair rules and technical standards, and created filthy pollution havens.”

“From 1789 to 1913, we were a tariff-backed nation. And the United States was proportionately the wealthiest it has ever been,” he said. “So wealthy, in fact, that in the 1880s they established a commission to decide what they were going to do with the vast sums of money they were collecting. We were collecting so much money so fast, we didn’t know what to do with it. Isn’t that a nice problem to have?”

“And my answer is very simple. If they complain, if you want your tariff rate to be zero, then you build your product right here in America. Because there is no tariff. If you build your plant, your product in America. And we’ve seen companies coming in like we’ve never seen before,” he said.

The White House released a detailed chart showing how badly many countries have been ripping off American workers, charging high tariffs on U.S. goods while benefiting from America’s generosity in return.

The White House fact sheet released today clarified that Canada is exempt from the reciprocal tariff announcement.

This exemption comes after a series of trade tensions between the U.S. and Canada. In February 2025, the U.S. imposed a 10% tariff on Canadian energy imports and a 25% tariff on other Canadian goods, prompting Canada to respond with its own tariffs on American imports. Subsequent negotiations led to temporary suspensions and adjustments of these tariffs.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford proposed that Canada eliminate tariffs on U.S. imports if President Trump reciprocates. Ford emphasized that mutual tariff removal would benefit both economies and urged cooperation for greater prosperity and safety.

However, according to the New York Post, Ford lacks the federal authority to enact such policy changes.

Country	Tariffs Charged to the U.S.A.	U.S.A. Discounted Reciprocal Tariffs
Argentina	10%	10%
Australia	10%	10%
Bangladesh	74%	37%
Botswana	74%	37%
Brazil	10%	10%
Cambodia	97%	49%
Chile	10%	10%
China	67%	34%
Colombia	10%	10%
Costa Rica	17%	10%
Côte d’Ivoire	41%	21%
Dominican Republic	10%	10%
Ecuador	12%	10%
Egypt	10%	10%
El Salvador	10%	10%
European Union	39%	20%
Guatemala	10%	10%
Honduras	10%	10%
India	52%	26%
Indonesia	64%	32%
Israel	33%	17%
Japan	46%	24%
Jordan	40%	20%
Kazakhstan	54%	27%
Laos	95%	48%
Madagascar	93%	47%
Malaysia	47%	24%
Morocco	10%	10%
Myanmar (Burma)	88%	44%
New Zealand	20%	10%
Nicaragua	36%	18%
Norway	30%	15%
Pakistan	58%	29%
Peru	10%	10%
Philippines	34%	17%
Saudi Arabia	10%	10%
Serbia	74%	37%
Singapore	10%	10%
South Africa	60%	30%
South Korea	50%	25%
Sri Lanka	88%	44%
Switzerland	61%	31%
Taiwan	64%	32%
Thailand	72%	36%
Trinidad and Tobago	12%	10%
Tunisia	55%	28%
Turkey	10%	10%
United Arab Emirates	10%	10%
United Kingdom	10%	10%
Vietnam	90%	46%

WATCH:

Trump was just handed a large poster and he is now going through every country with unfair tariffs against the U.S.

Trump is making comments on each country, explaining how they’re screwing the US off, and says he’s tariffing them.

We are SO BACK. pic.twitter.com/A8PLBIqKa2

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 2, 2025

[bigdaddy45]

And he also said “Then in 1929 it all came to a very abrupt end with the Great Depression. And it would have never happened if they had stayed with the tariff policy”.

Somebody is going to have to help me out here. Smoot-Hawley, which RAISED tariffs in all sectors was passed in 1930. Sounds to me that increased tariffs lengthened the Great Depression.

[cuz1961]

Keenly aware of the need to protect the young nation’s customs revenue, maintain safe coastal waters, and fight back against illegal trading and piracy, Hamilton had a big job ahead of him. But he knew that achieving these goals would be an important step toward establishing a firm financial foothold. Hamilton set forth to establish a service that would patrol the nation’s coastal waters, ..... .. protecting an important source of revenue: import tariffs. .... ... He presented this idea to Congress in a bill described as “An act to regulate the collection of the duties imposed by law on the tonnage of ships or vessels, and on goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the United States.” \/ tariffs are as american as apple pie.

[Libloather]

I voted for that.

[cuz1961]

the ‘ great ‘ depression was solely a result of the fed res constriction of the money supply via constricted credit.

ironically., the fed res’ sales pitch was that it would prevent the cycle of boom and busts , only to immediately create an easy credit boom , the roaring 20’s, followed by the GREAT depression.

had zero to do with tariffs.

[rightwingcrazy]

50% matching for tariffs larger than 10%. It pays to go big.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Thanks for the helpful graph that shows countries and the corresponding tariffs. Jim Hoft and his staff are actually doing some journalism.

[bigdaddy45]

Then someone is going to have to educate Trump on this one

[cuz1961]

Then someone is going to have to educate Trump on this one.

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how do you come to that conclusion ?

[bigdaddy45]

Read his words man! “Then in 1929 it all came to a very abrupt end with the Great Depression. And it would have never happened if they had stayed with the tariff policy”.

Trump said the Great Depression was caused by tariffs

Yet you say tariffs had nothing to do with the Great Depression.

So.... who’s right?

[cuz1961]

Great Depression..... would have never happened if they had stayed with the tariff policy”.

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[cuz1961]

bro , you need to work on your reading comprehension.

[cuz1961]

if they had stayed with tariffs and not gone to income tax to fund the gov.

[Chainmail]

What happened to Canada and Mexico?

[kaktuskid]

The Great Depression actually began in farm country a few years before the Stock market crash. Commodity prices were crashing, hurting the farmers, then the drought.

[dp0622]

Dragging it out until april 9 now.

If he tries hard the nasdaq will be another 20 percent lower :)

The positive results wont be seen for several years unfortunately...after the midterms.

[unclebankster]

The Great Depression actually began in farm country a few years before the Stock market crash. Commodity prices were crashing, hurting the farmers, then the drought.

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Then came the banking crisis from 1930-1933 where banks were dropping like dominoes.

It’s hard to make a purchase when you can’t get your money.

Also, when banks did reopen many depositors never recovered their deposits. My great grandfather got 8 or 10 cents on the dollar.

[aquila48]

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[central_va]

Unleashes!! Wow, such over the top rhetoric!!!

[Fresh Wind]

All those countries were collecting those tariffs for years because they knew that Uncle Sugar would pay them without complaint.

Now let’s see what they do in response.