{"id":16748,"date":"2026-04-08T16:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/16748\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:05:07","slug":"developing-fragile-ceasefire-lifts-markets-as-trump-threatens-50-tariffs-on-iran-arms-suppliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/16748\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing | Fragile ceasefire lifts markets as Trump threatens 50% tariffs on Iran arms suppliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As a long-awaited ceasefire announcement eased global markets, US President Donald Trump again stirred trade tensions by threatening a new 50 per cent tariff on countries supplying weapons to Iran, while Tehran blocked oil tanker passage through the Strait of Hormuz and warned it may withdraw from the agreement if Israeli attacks on Lebanon continue.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In related diplomatic moves, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Mark Rutte in Washington to discuss the US-Israel conflict with Iran.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The former Dutch prime minister is scheduled to meet Trump later at the White House, as the president continues to criticise the transatlantic alliance for not assisting in securing the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cA Country supplying Military Weapons to Iran will be immediately tariffed, on any and all goods sold to the United States of America, 50%, effective immediately. There will be no exclusions or exemptions!\u201d Trump warned on social media on Wednesday, without saying which countries would be affected.<\/p>\n<p>The threat came after Iran and the US agreed to a <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/us\/diplomacy\/article\/3349299\/trump-agrees-suspend-bombing-iran-2-weeks?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">two-week ceasefire<\/a>, mediated by Pakistan, and to hold peace talks in Islamabad on Friday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">That agreement came less than two hours ahead of Trump\u2019s deadline for Iran to cede to his demands or face widespread destruction of its civilian infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a long-awaited ceasefire announcement eased global markets, US President Donald Trump again stirred trade tensions by threatening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[13194,250,2618,34,13195,243,13193,2617,912,4125,184,10,11,329,1613,67,739],"class_list":["post-16748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-donald-trump","tag-atlantic-council","tag-china","tag-hezbollah","tag-iran","tag-islamabad","tag-israel","tag-kuwait","tag-lebanon","tag-moscow","tag-pakistan","tag-pentagon","tag-potus","tag-president-of-the-united-states","tag-russia","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-washington"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116369943930520333","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}