Some of the most widely used types of gold bars would be subject to U.S. tariffs, customs agency officials ruled, a particular blow to Switzerland’s large gold refining industry.

A Trump administration ruling that gold bars will be subject to tariffs stunned traders who had assumed they would be exempted, throwing bullion markets into turmoil.

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