President Donald Trump signed executive actions on Wednesday implementing a crippling 50% tariff on Brazil as well as a 50% tariff on certain copper products, the White House said, in the latest escalation of his administration’s aggressive trade war.

The US will impose 25% tariffs on goods imported from India "plus an unspecified penalty" for buying Russian oil and weapons, President Trump has said.

President Donald Trump said that India will have a 25% tariff beginning Aug. 1. He also said that the key trading partner will face an additional "penalty," but did not specify what that might mean.