US President Donald Trump's threat to impose 50-percent tariffs on copper imports has roiled the strategic metal on markets. Copper prices surged almost 17 percent in New York trading to reach a ...

While US copper futures on the Comex exchange briefly surged on the news, prices on the London Metal Exchange (LME) fell ...

Trump, who has called Bolsonaro a friend, had hosted him at his Mar-a-Lago resort back in 2020, when both were in office.

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The announcement came hours after he also informed Brazil that its "reciprocal" tariff on August 1 would rise to 50% from 10%, a shockingly high level for a country with a balanced US trade relationsh ...

The 50% tariff is the highest announced so far in Trump's wave of letters to world leaders this week. "The persistence of the current state of uncertainty, marked by prolonged delays and unclear trade ...