‘There are no winners’: global companies respond to Trump tariffs

Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs will upend global trade, adding costs and delays to businesses around the world and threatening a recession. The Guardian spoke to eight businesses about the impact. Italy: pecorino cheesemaker On the Italian island of Sardinia, makers of pecorino, the hard, salty sheep’s milk cheese, were digesting news of Trump’s tariffs. Up to 70% of their product is exported to the US. “We need to understand it better and wait and see if they really mean 20%, but obviously it has created some imbalance,” says Salvatore Pala, president of OP Unione Pastori, an association representing the island’s…