内容摘要：Trump has described these taxes as payback for unfair trade policies.

Trump has described these taxes as payback for unfair trade policies.

The steel tariffs come as many hold their breath waiting for further announcements. from the Trump administration.Trump's tariff policies have upended global trade and cracks have formed - or widened - among relationships between the US and other countries, including some of its closest partners.

The levies have worsened relations between China and the US, the two largest global economies - and launched the countries into a tit-for-tat trade battle.Under a trade truce struck in May at Geneva, the US lowered tariffs imposed on goods from China from 145% to 30%. China's retaliatory tariffs on US goods dropped from 125% to 10%.But a larger trade deal between the countries has not been established.

On Sunday, Treasury Secretary Bessenttold CBS News, the BBC's US news partner, details of the trade will be "ironed out" once Chinese President Xi Jinping and Trump speak, but he did not say exactly when that conversation is expected.

"What China is doing is they are holding back products that are essential for the industrial supply chains of India, of Europe. And that is not what a reliable partner does," Bessent said.

The Treasury Secretary claimed China could be withholding some products because of a "glitch", or he said it could be "intentional" - but the administration would not know for sure until a call with both countries happened."The civil service to me is completely overmanned, not working properly and I think if you went through it like a dose of salts and tried to find some savings, you could find a lot of savings," she said.

Ms McDonough criticised the chancellor's decision to raise the amount employers pay in National Insurance, saying her first Budget was "like someone had threw chaos at us".Simon Case, former head of the civil service, admitted he "totally failed" during his time as cabinet secretary to reduce the size of the organisation.

"I was supposed to reduce the size of the civil service but it actually went up," he told the programme."It is definitely true that across all our public services we could find a more efficient and effective way of doing things."