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NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar dropped across the board on Friday, as investors dumped the currency after U.S. President Donald Trump once again ratcheted up his trade war, recommending that the European Union be hit with 50% tariffs beginning June 1.That rekindled concern about the impact of duties on the world economy and global trade. Trump said in comments on social media that the EU was "very difficult to deal with" and "our discussions with them are going nowhere." He threatened in a separate post to impose a 25% tariff on Apple AAPL.O iPhones not made in the United States, as well as Samsung and other smartphone makers."The key theme that is weighing on the dollar right now is the loss of confidence in U.S. policy," said Elias Haddad, senior markets strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman in London. "There's an ongoing trade war and that's leading countries to reassess their dependency on the U.S."In afternoon trading, the dollar sank 1% versus the safe-haven Japanese yen to 142.48 after earlier falling to a two-week low. For the week, the greenback was down 2.2% against the Japanese currency, on track for its largest weekly fall since April 7.The euro rose 0.8% against the dollar to $1.1363. Earlier in the session, it touched a two-week peak, and was on track for its biggest weekly rise in six weeks.The dollar index , which measures the greenback against a basket of currencies, fell 0.8% to 99.09, hitting a three-week trough.For the week, the greenback was down 1.9%, on track for its biggest weekly percentage decline since early April.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent noted that Trump's tariff comments were in response to the EU's pace on tariff talks, noting that the U.S. president does not believe the European Union's trade offers to the United States are of sufficient quality.U.S. stocks also fell in tandem with the dollar.Jayati Bharadwaj, a global FX strategist at TD Securities, said the dollar and stocks selling off in unison highlighted the U.S. currency's failure this year to act as a haven currency."The dollar's correlation with equities is also broken ... it's flipped completely in the last few weeks and we expect it to stay that way. That's because the risks that we've been dealing with since the start of the year are U.S.-centric," she added.The Japanese currency, meanwhile, got a boost earlier from data showing Japan's core inflation accelerated at its fastest annual pace in more than two years in April, raising the odds of another interest rate hike by year-end from the Bank of Japan.The data underscores the dilemma facing the Bank of Japan, which must grapple with price pressures from persistent food inflation as well as economic headwinds from Trump's tariffs.Super-long Japanese government bonds have also scaled record highs this week, although yields dipped on Friday.After Moody's last week downgraded the U.S. debt ratings, investor attention has focused on the country's $36 trillion debt pile and Trump's tax bill, which could add trillions of dollars more to it.The bill narrowly passed the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives and now heads to the Senate for what is likely to be weeks of debate, keeping investor sentiment fragile in the near term.Sterling strengthened 0.9% against the dollar to $1.3533 after earlier climbing to a more than three-year high. For the week, the pound was up 1%, posting its largest weekly gain in five weeks.Reporting by Chuck Mikolajczak and Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss; Additional reporting by Saqib Iqbal Ahmed in New York, Amanda Cooper in London, and Ankur Banerjee in Singapore; Editing by Frances Kerry and Lisa Shumaker

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A powerful US national security panel on Wednesday submitted a recommendation to President Donald Trump on Nippon Steel’s fraught $14.9 billion bid for US Steel, a person familiar with the matter said, without providing further detail on its contents.The submission complies with an executive order signed by Trump last month, which tasked the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US with outlining whether any measures proposed by the companies assuage the national security risks previously identified by the committee.Reuters could not learn the content of the committee’s recommendation.Trump will now have 15 days to decide the fate of the transaction, although the timeline could slip.The companies and the Treasury Department, which leads CFIUS, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Following a previous CFIUS-led review, former President Joe Biden blocked the deal in January on national security grounds.The companies sued, arguing they did not receive a fair review process. The Biden White House rejected that view.Reuters reported earlier this week that Nippon Steel has floated plans to invest $14 billion in US Steel’s operations including up to $4 billion in a new steel mill if the Trump administration green lights its merger bid, in response to requests from the government for more investment.The April directive asks for a statement describing the position of each agency that is a member of CFIUS as well as the reasons behind it.(By Alexandra Alper; Editing by Costas Pitas and Sonali Paul)

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Poland’s copper mining tax will fall from next year under a new system that will provide deductions related to investment spending, Polish finance minister Andrzej Domanski said on Friday.The tax on mineral extraction, including copper, was introduced in 2012. Poland’s biggest copper miner KGHM paid 3.87 billion zlotys in tax in 2024, according to its annual report.Domanski said the tax cut and the introduction of investment spending deductions would lower tax revenues by an estimated 10 billion zlotys ($2.66 billion) over ten years and reduce costs for copper producers by the same amount.“The fact that KGHM is a supplier of about 85% of copper in Europe is absolutely crucial,” Minister of State Assets Jakub Jaworowski said.“By taking care of investments in Poland, by taking care of the development of KGHM, we also take care of the collective security of the West and the European Union.”($1 = 3.7545 zlotys)(Reporting by Karol Badohal. Writing by Pawel Florkiewicz. Editing by Jane Merriman)

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