The Trump administration on Thursday said import taxes on coffee and bananas will be lowered as part of trade deals with four Latin American countries.
The agreements with Argentina, Guatemala, El Salvador and Ecuador come as US President Donald Trump faces scrutiny over his handling of the economy and concerns about affordability.
As part of an initial framework, a reciprocal tariff of 10% will stay on goods from Guatemala, Argentina and El Salvador, as will a 15% tax on imports from Ecuador into the US. But the deals will exempt products that cannot be produced in the US "in sufficient quantities," such as coffee.
The US-Argentina deal also addresses beef producers' access to foreign markets.
President Donald Trump has handed Paul Ingrassia, whose nomination to lead a government watchdog crashed in the Senate after his alleged racist texts were leaked, a new job in his administration. Ingrassia, 30, withdrew his nomination to lead the Office of Special Counsel last month when GOP senators revolted over leaked group chat messages in which he allegedly used racial slurs and bragged about having a "Nazi streak." Despite the messages, Ingrassia kept his post as the White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security.
Rod Dreher is an American writer who moved to Budapest in 2022 after becoming enamored with Orbn's brand of right-wing populism. On Monday, he published a lengthy essay on his Substack "diary" describing a sitdown he had with Orbn and JD Vance on Nov. 7 "in the vice president's study." According to Dreher, his time with Vance also included a discussion of "Groyperism" and what he described as the "new radicalism racing through the young" in Washington D.C. during this second Trump era. "The Groyper thing is real," Dreher later wrote in his post describing the meeting. "It is not a fringe movement, in that it really has infiltrated young conservative Washington networks to a significant degree."
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