More than 50 countries have sought talks with President Donald Trump in a scramble to ease punishing tariffs on exports to the United States, the White House said Sunday, as trade partners braced for fallout.

Asian and European equities collapsed on a black Monday for markets after China hammered the United States with its own hefty tariffs, ramping up a trade war many fear could spark a recession.

Commerce adviser sends a letter to US trade representative

IMF presents target, revises GDP growth to 4%

The chief adviser made the call in a letter to the US president

China retaliated last week against levies at the same level announced by US President Donald Trump on what he called "liberation day".

The global auto sector has been hit hard by Washington's sweeping new tariffs, which impose a 25 percent levy on vehicles imported into the United States

Trading floors were overcome by a wave of selling as investors fled to the hills

Gold fell more than 3 percent on Friday, erasing gains from earlier in the week, as investors sold off bullion to cover their losses from a wider market meltdown as an intensifying trade war sparked concerns of a global recession.

The approval was given last month, says Ashik Chowdhury

The Southeast Asian country posted a trade surplus of over $123 billion with the US

The president's 10-percent "baseline" rate on goods from most US trading partners except Mexico and Canada took effect Saturday.

"I hope that the United States and Europe can establish a very close partnership," Musk said in a video address to a gathering of the Italian hard-right party La Liga.

India’s economic growth could slow by 20-40 basis points in the ongoing financial year due to the latest US tariffs, which would prompt deeper interest rate cuts by the central bank, analysts said.

The event is scheduled to begin in Bangladesh on April 7

More tariffs equal more anxiety and uncertainty, says the National Retail Federation (NRF)

The USFIA said the fashion industry will be disproportionately impacted by the sweeping tariff measures

A manufacturing powerhouse that counted the United States as its biggest market last year, Vietnam was hammered with a thumping 46 percent tariff

The new tariffs target all major suppliers of apparel, footwear, and travel goods, industries that already face some of the highest tariff rates in the US trade system.

Trump on Friday extended by 75 days a deadline for ByteDance to sell US assets of the popular short video app to a non-Chinese buyer