“All the steel that arrives in the United States will have 25% of tariffs,” said the president from the presidential plane on Sunday afternoon, before his arrival in New Orleans to attend the Super Bowl.
Trump added that the tariffs themselves will be applied to aluminum imports.
Canada is the largest steel and aluminum supplier to the United States, according to official data, while Brazil, Mexico and South Korea are also important steel suppliers.
The US president also anticipated that “Tuesday or Wednesday” will announce “reciprocal tariffs” with which it seeks to align customs customs taxes that enter the United States.
“If they tax us with 130% and we don’t, that will not continue like this“said the president.
The European Union and Canada, the Garrote in silence for the US
Trump imposed similar tariffs during his 2017-2021 presidency to protect US companies that suffer from unfair competition from Asian and European countries.
During a recent Fox News interview about all its measures less than a month in the presidency, Trump said:
About Canada, he added as a joke, “it would be much better if” it were state number 51 (from the United States), because We lose with them (the Canadians) 200,000 million dollars a year“
For decades, the European Union has maintained tariffs on American products above 50% and 100% in some products. The president of the USA
The European Commission said Monday that it had not received “no official notification” on new rates but, in the words of the French Foreign Minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, the block “will respond” to any measure of this type.
“We will react to protect the interests of European businesses, workers and consumers in the face of unjustified measures,” the European Commission said in a statement.
As of Tuesday, products from China will have additional 10%tariffs, a measure that Beijing decided to respond with specific taxes on certain US products since Monday.
Musk is still looking for more cuts
Trump said his advisor Elon Musk, in charge of cutting the waste of federal money implemented by the ultra -left government of Joe Biden, will help discover “hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud” and plans to review the expense in other departments such as Defense.
In an interview with the Fox News chain, Trump said that the American people “want to find” waste and that Musk has been “a great help” to eradicate waste in Washington by the new Democrats aligned to ultra -left in the US and the world.
“We are going to find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse. They know that people chose me for that,” he said in an excerpt from the interview.
Trump also points to Department of Education to the one described as inefficient, wasteful, and governed by radical leftists. In the interview he said that he would order Musk to put his sights in that entity.
“Then I will go for the Armed Forces,” the president anticipated, who has been in the White House for just three weeks, and reiterated his call to a review of spending in that department, whose budget by 2025 amounts to about 850,000 million dollars.
Musk, which leads federal cost reduction efforts at the head of the so -called Government Efficiency Department (Doge), already adopted measures to close the US Agency for International Development (USAID), saying goodbye to thousands of employees as part of the structure of the mega bureaucracy in these agencies that operate with the money of US taxpayers.
Within its economic strategy, Trump also threatened Canada and Mexico with a 25% tariff above all imports, but suspended it for a month after last minute conversations with their counterparts from both countries.
The Republican president warned that what had been done so far “was not enough.”
“Something has to be done, it is not sustainable and I am changing it,” he said when asked if both countries had to do more before the deadline of 30 days.
About Canada, he added as a joke that “would be much better if” it were the state number 51 (of the United States), because We lose with them 200,000 million dollars a year“
On board the presidential plane, Trump also signed an executive order that proclaims on February 9 as the day of the “Gulf of America”, in reference to the Gulf of Mexico that was recently renamed.
