List of UK items Trump’s tariffs will hit the hardest with three key industries affected

The White House’s so-called ‘reciprocal tariffs’ have gone into effect (Pictures: Rex/Getty)

In just 50 seismic minutes, Donald Trump flipped the world’s trading system on its head, branded other nations ‘foreign scavengers’ and called the EU ‘pathetic’ for ‘ripping off’ the US.

The US president had been billing his ‘liberation day’ as one of the most important days in the country’s history – and it’s certainly lived up to it.

At the ‘Make America Wealthy Again’ address on the White House’s famous Rose Garden...