One week down in the election race but it's a week that will reverberate across the rest of the campaign.

US President Donald Trump's tariff plans came into full view yesterday prompting the Prime Minister to say this was not the act of a friend.

The federal government says it will "continue making the strongest case" for the removal of US tariffs on Australian exports, but isn't putting a time-frame on its hopes of getting an exemption.

Meanwhile, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says he believes he could have secured a better outcome, in the wake of Donald Trump's self-declared liberation day of tariffs yesterday.

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