{"id":296539,"date":"2026-02-22T11:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/296539\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T11:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:13:12","slug":"trump-hikes-us-global-tariff-rate-to-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/296539\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump hikes US global tariff rate to 15%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shares on Wall Street &#8211; a metric closely watched by Trump &#8211; rose modestly Friday after the decision, which had been expected.<\/p>\n<p>Business groups largely cheered the ruling, with the National Retail Federation saying this &#8220;provides much-needed certainty&#8221; for companies.<\/p>\n<p>In court arguments, the Trump administration said companies would receive refunds if the tariffs were deemed unlawful. But the Supreme Court&#8217;s ruling did not address the issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he expected years of litigation on whether to provide refunds. Kavanaugh noted the refund process could be a &#8220;mess&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Several countries have said they are studying the Supreme Court ruling and Trump&#8217;s subsequent tariff announcements.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Saturday he would hold talks with European allies to formulate &#8220;a very clear European position&#8221; and a joint response to Washington before he travels to the US capital in early March.<\/p>\n<p>On the domestic front, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, said on X it was time for Trump to &#8220;listen to the Supreme Court, end chaotic tariffs, and stop wreaking havoc on our farmers, small business owners, and families&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shares on Wall Street &#8211; a metric closely watched by Trump &#8211; rose modestly Friday after the decision,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,65,219,111,139,69,34685],"class_list":{"0":"post-296539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-trade-tariffs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}