President Donald Trump has said he would place 25 percent tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico and 10 percent tariffs on goods from China effective on Saturday, raising the spectre of swift price increases for US consumers even though he suggested he would try to blunt the impact on oil imports. “Starting tomorrow, those tariffs will be in place,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters earlier on Friday. “These are promises made and promises kept by the president.”

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