{"id":1722,"date":"2025-04-02T10:13:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T02:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2025-04-07T10:14:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T02:14:32","slug":"factories-around-the-world-brace-for-trump-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/factories-around-the-world-brace-for-trump-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Factories around the world brace for Trump tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Factories around the world, from Japan to Britain to the United States, saw activity slump in March as businesses braced for new US tariffs, though some saw a bounce in the race to get goods to customers before the new measures hit, global surveys showed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump is set to announce a tariff proposal on what he&#8217;s called &#8220;Liberation Day&#8221; on Wednesday, after implementing levies on aluminium, steel, and automobiles, along with increased tariffs on all goods from China.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has said no nation will be spared tariffs that policymakers fear will be the latest blow to a global economy barely just recovered from the Covid pandemic and beset by concerns over political instability and wars.<\/p>\n<p>Asia&#8217;s factory activity mostly weakened in March as the impending tariffs, plus weak global demand, hurt business sentiment, Purchasing Managers&#8217; Index surveys &#8211; a closely-watched gauge of economic sentiment &#8211; showed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Factories around the world, from Japan to Britain to the United States, saw activity slump in March as businesses braced for new US tariffs, though some saw a bounce in the race to get goods to customers before the new measures hit, global surveys showed on Tuesday. US President Donald Trump is set to announce [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1724,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions\/1724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elitecommunicationpr.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}