{"id":24154,"date":"2026-02-24T08:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/trump-fumes-against-the-world-as-his-tariffs-come-up-short\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:53","slug":"trump-fumes-against-the-world-as-his-tariffs-come-up-short","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/trump-fumes-against-the-world-as-his-tariffs-come-up-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump fumes against the world as his tariffs come up short"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>United States (US) President Donald Trump has warned trade partners not to &#8220;play games&#8221; by backing out of recently agreed trade deals after the Supreme Court struck down his emergency tariffs.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But some foreign governments just want to know if the terms they originally negotiated are still good.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Trump is expected to &#8220;come out swinging&#8221; during his annual State of the Union address later on Tuesday after the tariff setback, and may take aim at some of the Supreme Court Justices seated in the chamber.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But governments in Asia have questions. Japan wants to know whether the nation&#8217;s treatment under a new US tariff regime will be as favourable as an agreement reached between the two sides last year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And Taiwan&#8217;s government is seeking assurances from the US that the beneficial terms it has already agreed do not change.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Not to be outdone by the trade drama in Washington, China on Tuesday prohibited the export of dual-use items to 20 Japanese entities that it says have military links, aimed at curbing Japan&#8217;s &#8220;remilitarisation&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Markets in Japan and China largely shrugged off the dispute, gaining a boost from lower US tariffs as they reopened after local holidays and caught up on the trade news from Friday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15766,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-24154","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"US President has warned trade partners","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26921,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24154\/revisions\/26921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=24154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}