Trump’s Copper Tariff Threat Leaves Companies Scrambling

Scritto il 10/07/2025
da Farah Stockman and Peter Eavis

President Trump wants America to produce more of the much-needed mineral, but a 50 percent tariff could undermine his aim of a manufacturing renaissance.Copper smelting at a processing facility in Machalí, Chile. The United States imports about 40 percent of the copper it consumes, much of it from Chile.