US Places Metal Tariffs on Key Allies

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Washington says it will impose heavy tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from its closest allies and trade partners in the EU, Canada and Mexico. So is this now a trade war? Jim Rollo is associate fellow for global economy and politics at Chatham House, and gives us his reaction. Also in the programme, we have a report from India where economic growth has accelerated to 7.7%. Spain's government seems to be disintegrating, just as Italy appears to have finally found a way to form a coalition cabinet. We have updates from Madrid and Rome. Plus, as coffee consumption falls in the developed world, can producers percolate to new markets? Roger Hearing is joined throughout the show by Jasper Kim, writer and founder of the Asia-Pacific Global Research Group in Seoul, and Elizabeth Economy, Director for Asia Studies at the Council for Foreign Relations, in New York. (Picture: Rolls of steel. Picture credit: Getty Images.)