An acute copper supply squeeze is coming to an abrupt end as President Donald Trump’s plan to soon slap a 50% tariff on the metal narrows the window to profit from surging US prices.

U.S. President Donald Trump launched his global tariff assault into overdrive on Wednesday, announcing a new 50% tariff on U.S. copper imports and a 50% duty on goods from Brazil, both to start on August 1.

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For many countries, the reprieve from President Donald Trump’s eye-watering tariffs, which were implemented on April 2 and temporarily reduced to 10% a week later, is soon set to come to an end. The 90-day pause,

President Donald Trump announced a 35% tariff on goods from Canada, one of the USA's largest trading partners and which got hit with a higher rate than threatened for other close allies. The announcement July 10 came amid a flurry of letters going out this week dictating tariff rates for each of more than a dozen countries.

President Donald Trump threatened a 35% tariff on some Canadian goods and raised the prospect of increasing levies on most other countries, ramping up his trade rhetoric in comments that weighed on stocks and boosted the US dollar.