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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-08/donald-trump-sets-25-per-cent-tariff-for-japan-and-south-korea/105505354


Donald Trump has written to the leaders of more than a dozen countries, threatening them with punishing new tariffs but giving them extra time to negotiate deals with the US.

Many of the new tariffs are similar to the so-called "liberation day" rates the US president announced on April 2, before he paused them three days later.

The first round of new rates, outlined in letters posted to Mr Trump's Truth Social platform, includes:

Laos: 40 per cent (down from 48 per cent announced on April 2)
Myanmar: 40 per cent (was 44 per cent)
Cambodia: 36 per cent (was 49 per cent)
Bangladesh: 35 per cent (was 37 per cent)
Serbia: 35 per cent (was 36 per cent)
Indonesia: 32 per cent (unchanged)
Bosnia and Herzegovina: 30 per cent (was 36 per cent)
South Africa: 30 per cent (unchanged)
Tunisia: 25 per cent (was 28 per cent)
Kazakhstan: 25 per cent (was 27 per cent)
Japan: 25 per cent (was 24 per cent)
Malaysia: 25 per cent (was 24 per cent)
South Korea: 25 per cent (unchanged)

White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said Mr Trump would reveal more countries' rates, and publish the letters sent to their leaders, in coming days.

In the first letters, published on Monday, local time, Mr Trump told Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and South Korea's President Lee Jae-myung that the 25 per cent tariffs would be for all goods and separate from sector-specific tariffs.

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