{"id":36360,"date":"2025-08-01T01:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/36360\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T01:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:58:09","slug":"australian-news-and-politics-live-trump-signs-executive-orders-australia-maintains-10-per-cent-tariff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/36360\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian news and politics live: Trump signs executive orders, Australia maintains 10 per cent tariff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Trade Minister Don Farrell is speaking in Adelaide, where he revealed his American counterpart, Howard Lutnik, has confirmed Australia\u2019s tariff rate would remain at 10 per cent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Mr Lutnik had said \u201cthat there had been some pressure on the American system for an increase\u201d, but Mr Trump decided to maintain the 10 per cent he imposed in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cI think this is a vindication for the Albanese Government and particularly the Prime Minister in the cool and calm way that we have conducted diplomacy with the United States,\u201d Senator Farrell said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cI am hopeful this is the end of the matter now\u2026 and that our producers, our winemakers, can get back to a normal relationship with the United States where we don\u2019t have to worry about changes in tariff rates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">He said Australia will continue to press for the full removal of tariffs on its products in light of the 20-year-old free trade deal with the US and trade surplus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trade Minister Don Farrell is speaking in Adelaide, where he revealed his American counterpart, Howard Lutnik, has confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,84],"class_list":["post-36360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}