{"id":381889,"date":"2026-01-21T08:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T08:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/381889\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T08:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T08:29:08","slug":"trump-heading-to-meet-world-leaders-as-greenland-minister-says-we-do-not-want-to-be-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/381889\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump heading to meet world leaders as Greenland minister says ‘we do not want to be Americans’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump threatens eight allies with fresh tariffs – a reminderpublished at 08:02 GMT<\/p>\n

08:02 GMT<\/p>\n

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Trump’s tariff threats over Greenland<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose fresh tariffs on eight allies that oppose his demands for control of Greenland.<\/p>\n

He plans on hitting the UK, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Finland with 10% tariffs on “any and all goods” if they oppose his proposed takeover of Greenland.<\/p>\n

Trump said the tariffs would be in place by 1 February and would rise to 25% by 1 June.<\/p>\n

What are tariffs and how do they work?<\/p>\n

Tariffs are taxes on imported goods. Typically, the charge is a percentage of a good’s value.<\/p>\n

For example, a 10% tariff on a $10 product would mean a $1 tax on top – taking the total cost to $11 (\u00a38.17).<\/p>\n

The tax is paid to the government by companies bringing in the foreign products.<\/p>\n

These firms may pass some or all of the extra cost on to their customers, which in this case means ordinary Americans and other US businesses.<\/p>\n

They may also decide to import fewer goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump threatens eight allies with fresh tariffs – a reminderpublished at 08:02 GMT 08:02 GMT Image source, EPA\/Shutterstock…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-381889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}