The value stock markets Asia has fallen their biggest amount in decades. The market in Shanghai was down nearly 8%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng dropped 13.22%, Japan's Nikkei index fell 7.8%, and Taiwan's market closed more than 9.7% . Markets in Australia also sank. An analyst told the BBC that the markets were a "bloodbath". Stock prices are reacting negatively to the trade tariffs announced US President Donald Trump April the 2nd. He called this day "Liberation Day". He said it "will forever be remembered as the day American industry was reborn, the day America's destiny was reclaimed and the day that we began to make America wealthy again".
Many countries are thinking what to do the tariffs. China's People's Daily newspaper said China could fight back. It wrote: "After eight years trade wars with the US, we've built a wealth of experience this struggle." It added that China was strong enough to face "US tariff bullying". The country could increase its own tariffs imports from the USA. Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said he would ask the US to reduce the 24% tariffs Japanese goods. He will visit the US "as soon as possible". He will explain to President Trump that Japan "is not doing anything unfair". Talking the tariffs, Trump said: "Sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something."
