Trump’s trade conflict wants to make you serious with threatened tariffs






Trump threatened tariffs in the election campaign. From Saturday the neighbors and China should get there, and it will soon be the turn of the EU. Trump promises a rich America from the tariffs.

US President Donald Trump is serious about a number of trading partners of his country with the tariffs already threatened in the election campaign. Already on Saturday, far -reaching tariffs are to be introduced on goods from China, Canada and Mexico, as Trump’s spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in the White House. Trump wanted to reduce the 25 percent intended for Canada to 10 percent, as he said. 10 percent are also planned for China, and 25 percent were initially in the room for Mexico. And everything “on top”, emphasized Trump, in addition to existing tariffs.

Customs are a kind of surcharge to imported goods. They are due on the border. Trump had already put on tariffs during his first term from 2017 to 2021. Economists assume that far -reaching tariffs will lead to an increase in prices in the United States.

The EU must also expect Trump tariffs. “Absolutely,” emphasized Trump on a reporter’s question. “The EU treated us so badly,” the US President explained his plans. The United States had a “huge deficit” in the trade with the European Union. “So we will do something very considerable with the European Union,” he announced – but without giving details. Trump did not call an exact time.

Trump has long been a thorn that European companies sell significantly more goods in the United States than American companies in the EU. He had already announced far -reaching tariffs in the election campaign. Trump argues that US companies will then produce more in the United States again and that jobs would be created.

There had already been a violent trade dispute between the USA and the EU in Trump’s first term. In 2018, the Republican introduced special tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, the EU reacted with special tariffs to US products such as Bourbon Whiskey, Harley-Davidson-Motorcorrads and Jeans.

Canada threatens countermeasures

The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau threatens countermeasures due to the possibly upcoming introduction by far-reaching tariffs by the US government. “We are working hard to prevent these tariffs, but when the United States progresses, Canada is ready with an energetic and immediate reaction,” Trudeau wrote on the platform X. “Nobody – on both sides of the border – wrote American tariffs on Canadian See. “

Trump: Customs will make us rich

“The tariffs will make us very rich and strong,” said Trump. The US President also announced import taxes on computer chips, oil, gas as well as steel and copper. Higher tariffs should also be charged for pharmaceutical products to strengthen the American pharmaceutical industry.

He considered a possible expensey of imported goods as a “temporary disorder”. Criticism of Trump’s approach came from Chuck Schumer, the democratic majority leader in the Senate. “It would be nice if Donald Trump focused on reducing prices instead of lifting them,” he wrote in a statement spread in Washington. Trump aims with his tariffs on countries such as China, Canada and Mexico, but instead he hit the brids of the Americans. If the tariffs actually come into force, they would raise the prices for food, cars and petrol. This would make it even more difficult for mid-range families to get through.

Trump originally wanted to introduce the corresponding tariffs on the day of his swearing -in, but then moved away from it and named February 1st as a key date. It is open whether the punitive measures are still averted by negotiations behind the scenes.

  • Donald Trump

  • Customs

  • Trade conflict

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  • EU

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  • China

  • Canada

  • Mexico

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  • Karoline Leavitt

  • Justin Trudeau