The commercial war is intensified. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, will give this afternoon a press conference to announce the imposition of caring tariffs, as announced by the White House spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, this Wednesday. Leavitt has sent to the president’s appearance for details. It is not yet known if there will be exceptions or what the tax level will be. Trump’s appearance is scheduled for 16.00 Washington, 21.00 in peninsular Spain.
Trump said in the middle of last month in an appearance in his mar-a-lago, his mansion in Palm Beach (Florida), who ensuring that he would also tax the importation of pharmaceutical products and microprocessors. Trump was specifically asked about cars tariffs that day. “I will probably tell you April 2, but it will be around 25%.”
Trump said earlier this week indicating that they could appear before his planned launch on April 2 of what he calls “reciprocal tariffs” to other countries. The president argues that taxes will help stimulate growth in the automobile sector and force companies to transfer more production to the United States.
As their ads are being so erratic and contradictory, a few days ago it did not seem that the threat of car tariffs were to be fulfilled and, in fact, sources of their surroundings delayed the sectoral tariffs for later. Because that day he will announce or approve the largest tariff taca since he returned to the White House. Among them include those that Trump has called “reciprocal tariffs”, which are not really such, but a way of penalizing the countries with which the United States has a greater commercial deficit.
The president of the United States has used some concrete tariffs to present a distorted image of bilateral trade. According to the European Commission, the EU average tariff on US products is 0.9%, while EU exports to the United States face an average 1.4%tax. The president of the United States presents as a proof of the grievance that the EU but forgetting that their country has a much greater for trucks and trucks (pickups), 25%, compared to 10% European.
The EU is willing to negotiate counterparts from both sides, which Trump erroneously interpreted as she had already agreed to lower the 2.5% tariff without concessions. He checked for that non -existent triumph several times, although apparently his advisors must have warned him that he was wrong because he has stopped referring to it. “We would be willing to study how we can reduce tariffs of all industrial products,” last month in Washington.
Trump seems particularly obsessed with the fact that Europeans do not buy many US cars. “I asked a couple of leaders. I don’t want to give names, but how many Chevrolet or Ford do you see in the center of Munich? The answer is none, because they do not accept any car. They do not accept anything. So Europe has abused the United States for years, and they cannot do that, and they want to reach an agreement,” in one of the sessions where he began to threaten the European Union with tariffs.
The imports to the import of cars are the second step of this week in protectionist matters. On Monday, Trump signed a decree that to impose at the same time, Washington has given an extension to the American oil company Chevron to continue operating in the country, with which the United States can continue to import Venezuelan crude.
Trump is convinced to improve his highly deficit commercial balance “There is no one who does not want to reach agreements. They have been abusers and want to reach agreements. So we will see, but I think we will have some very fair. Everything we want is a fair treatment,” he argued, underlining the commercial tariffs and obstacles that other countries put to US products.
“They are scamming us a lot, and the United States is tired of stating him and period, he added.” The tariffs are very powerful, both economically and to get everything else you want, “he said,” when you are the chicken of the golden eggs, the tariffs are very good, they are very powerful, and they will make our country very rich, “he said, with the thesis of the” access to the “access to the” a privilege. ”
