Duties of 25 percent on steel and aluminum will flow through to car buyers, beer drinkers, home builders, oil drillers and other users of metal goods.

The levies, which take effect March 4, are just the latest in a litany of tariff threats and impositions from the president in the first weeks of his second term.

The 25 percent tariffs on imported steel and aluminum are the latest salvo in his ongoing effort to overhaul the U.S. trading relationship with the rest of the world.