Donald Trump has announced he has ordered for the newly-launched global tariffs to be hiked, just hours after he announced the introduction of a 10% levy. Fears of a trade war and market instability spiked on Saturday afternoon, as the US President announced his decision to rise, “effective immediately”, the global tariffs to 15%. 

His comments come just days after the US Supreme Court ruled his sweeping tariffs were illegal, leaving the US with $133.5 billion in tax refunds to US busineeses.

Announcing the move on Truth Social, Trump wrote: “Based on a thorough, detailed, and complete review of the ridiculous, poorly written, and extraordinarily anti-American decision on Tariffs issued yesterday, after MANY months of contemplation, by the United States Supreme Court, please let this statement serve to represent that I, as President of the United States of America, will be, effective immediately, raising the 10% Worldwide Tariff on Countries, many of which have been “ripping” the U.S. off for decades, without retribution (until I came along!), to the fully allowed, and legally tested, 15% level.”

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