Trump says a new 50% tariff on copper imports is coming

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Source: CNN Business

Updated 2:09 PM EDT, Tue July 8, 2025


CNN — President Donald Trump said Tuesday he’s imposing a new 50% tariff on all copper. However, it’s unclear when the new tariff would take effect.

“Today we’re doing copper,” he said at a Cabinet meeting, adding that he believed the rate will be 50%.

This would mark the fourth across-the-board tariff Trump has imposed during his second term. Currently, imported cars and car parts face a 25% tariff while imported steel and aluminum face 50% tariffs.

Trump ordered a Section 232 investigation into copper imports in February.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/business/trump-copper-tariff

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Trump says 50% tariff on copper coming Tuesday

Updated 1:23 PM EDT, Tue July 8, 2025


CNN — President Donald Trump said a new 50% tariff on all copper imports will come Tuesday. However, he did not specify when the new tariff would take effect.

“Today we’re doing copper,” he said at a Cabinet meeting, adding that he believed the rate will be 50%.

This would mark the fourth across-the-board tariff Trump has imposed during his second term. Currently, imported cars and car parts face a 25% tariff while imported steel and aluminum face 50% tariffs.

Trump ordered a Section 232 investigation into copper imports in February.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Oh, goody, more construction sites and homes will have their copper tubing stolen. The black market will love TSF.

[rzemanfl]

2. Pennies are copper.

Wait. No, they aren’t anymore. Zinc with a copper coating.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. But cabling has copper wire

and we have had a rash of thieves literally cutting cables for the copper.

Some idiots cut the cable for our (livestream) Portal -

They eventually fixed it, tried it out at a couple alternate locations, giving it a little parade to each spot, and it is now supposedly in City Hall Courtyard here.

[tanyev]

7. And I've seen several news stories where large buildings that replaced stolen copper

promptly got hit again. Sad.

[regnaD kciN]

3. Just in time for TACO Tuesday...

[cstanleytech]

5. The Constitution clearly only allows Congress to set tariffs and not the President.

[Bourgeois Liberal]

6. Go For It!

Yessiree! Nothing like tariffs on raw materials to make US industries hum again.

[truthisfreedom]

8. Tax everyone but the rich.

Tax the poor, the working class, the immigrants, the tourists, the elderly, the sick, the disabled… and especially the manufacturing sector and the housing industry because WE HAVE TO BRING BACK MANUFACTURING AND LOWER HOME PRICES. And of course, taxing us for buying copper is how to do it.

[Prairie Gates]

9. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

[iemanja]

10. The US overthrew a government in Chile

Over access to foreign copper. Now they don’t want it. Imagine what Chileans think.