President Donald Trump is using a trio of executive orders to throw the world economy and his own goal of cutting inflation into turmoil.

Donald Trump is the first president to use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tariffs, teeing up likely legal battles that will test his executive authority.

While arriving in Maryland from Florida, Trump told the BBC that tariffs on EU goods imported into the US could happen "pretty soon". "They don't take our cars, they don't take our farm products, they take almost nothing and we take everything from them.