{"id":44752,"date":"2026-04-08T12:23:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=44752"},"modified":"2026-04-08T12:23:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:23:01","slug":"trump-announces-huge-tariffs-on-countries-supplying-iran-with-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=44752","title":{"rendered":"Trump announces huge tariffs on countries supplying Iran with weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F04%2Ftrump-iran-weapons-tariffs-threats-countries-comp.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump on Wednesday threatened to impose massive 50% tariffs on countries sending military firepower to Iran, putting Russia and China on notice.<\/p>\n<p>\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 wrote in a signed <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116368854361048135\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Truth Social<\/a> post.<\/p>\n<p>The threat comes weeks after the Supreme Court took a sledgehammer to Trump\u2019s favorite tool to impose customized tariffs \u2014 the International Emergency Economic Powers Act \u2014 was shut down by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>A Iranian cluster munition is fired towards Tel Aviv on April 8, 2026. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Trump has since turned to other tariff authorities to re-up many of the duties he imposed under IEEPA, but it\u2019s not entirely clear what law he\u2019d be using to fulfill his Wednesday threat.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>President Trump threatened to impose tariffs on countries supplying Iran with weapons. <span class=\"credit\">Anadolu via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>A couple looks at their destroyed home in Beit Shemesh, Israel on April 5, 2026. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The alternative tariff authorities Trump used have been much more cumbersome than IEEPA and difficult to impose customized rates.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/08\/us-news\/trump-announces-huge-tariffs-on-countries-supplying-iran-with-weapons\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump on Wednesday threatened to impose massive 50% tariffs on countries sending military firepower to Iran, putting Russia and China on notice. \u201cA&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}