Trump says tariffs on Mexico, Canada will arrive on March 4, vows to double China levies

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President Donald Trump said Thursday that tariffs on Chinese and Mexican imports would move forward on March 4 and that he would add an additional 10% levy on China, heightening the stakes of his trade battle that has rattled Wall Street and injected an air of uncertainty during his first weeks in office. In a post on Truth Social, Trump framed his decision to move forward with the tariffs as a response to "unacceptable levels" of drugs coming into the US from Canada and Mexico and supplied by China. "We cannot allow this scourge to continue to harm the USA,...