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00:03 Report / Jörg Jelinnek
00:27 Steve Mallia / Owner of StarField Optics 
01:07 Pieter van der Wethuizen / Owner Empire Nuts
01:52 Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva / Brazilian president

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(( +++ Map of the world - highlight on Canada +++ ))

The levy on goods from neighboring Canada is now at 35 percent.

That's a big blow for Steve Mallia's company selling telescope equipment from Toronto to costumers in the US mainly.

The tariff on his products went from zero to 25 percent in March and now up to 35.

That's too much. He's basically lost the US market now. 

00:31
(( +++ Steve Mallia, Owner of StarField Optics +++ ))
"Our sales in the U.S. have dropped to almost nothing. And the feedback that I'm getting is that a lot of that is due to a lot of uncertainty, the rise in the tariffs that are there and the added costs that we would end up having to tack on to the end price to the end consumer."
 
00:50
(( +++ Map of the world - Highlight on South Africa +++ ))
For South Africa a 30 percent US tariff is now in place. 

For Empire Nuts, a South African nut export company, it means losing their US customer base which they have built up over the last 30 years. They'd still love to buy their nuts but the tariff makes it unaffordable for them. 

01:11
(( +++ Pieter van der Wethuizen, Owner Empire Nuts +++ ))
"We're going to start feeling it immediately. We already have some of our customers that have found stock of macadamias elsewhere, which we were targeting and hoping that we're going to still supply them this year. But they've already found other sources elsewhere where they don't have these huge tariffs.  
  
01:32
(( +++ Map of the world - Highlight on Brazil +++ ))
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Brazil is faced with one of the highest tariffs imposed by Donald Trump.

50 percent on commodities such as coffee and beef. Economists believe they should find alternative markets at modest discounts. 

There are also some exemptions, including orange juice, energy and aircraft.
  
But they still bite. The government hopes international institutions will help.

01:56  
(( +++ Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, Brazilian president +++ ))
"We could file a complaint with the World Trade Organization. Does it take time? Yes, but it is an instrument that we have to value because we have already won things against the United States in the WTO. We can go alone or we can go with a group of countries.”
 
02:15 
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Switzerland has to pay a 39 percent tariff. But talks are still ongoing - as they are with Mexico and China, too. 
  
Swiss president Karin Keller-Sutter held talks with US secretary of state Marco Rubio. The European country already purchases some military hardware from the US and placed a 7.4 Bbillion dollar order to buy American fighter jets, but so far the US hasn't budged, and the tariff remains in place.