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The US is to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from the EU, Canada and Mexico. Jim Rollo is associate fellow for global economy and politics at Chatham House, and gives us his reaction. Meanwhile, there have been big developments in two major eurozone economies in the last few hours. 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. In his latest Brexit letter for our programme, the 大象传媒's business editor, Simon Jack, looks at the impact of the UK leaving the EU on London's role as Europe's leading financial centre. Plus, as Michael Bond's last Paddington bear story is published posthumously, we hear from the author's daughter Karen Jankel about the enduring appeal of her father's creation.

(Picture: Rolls of steel. Picture credit: Getty Images.)