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Confidential documents reveal several pages of “Supplementary Negotiation Objectives”, including the use of tariffs to pressure countries to grant benefits to US companies. Part of the tariffs is centered on combating China and its global influence.
The aggressive policy of chairman of the president Donald Trump He was described by himself as a tool for facing the commercial deficits of the United States with countries around the world.
However, according to confidential government documents obtained by, the policy had a number of other High Priority Objectives – who left the experts shocked.
According to the post this Saturday, the internal documents reveal several pages of “supplementary objectives negotiation ”, including the use of tariffs for press grant benefits to companies like the Giant Oil Chevron or Starlink, by Elon Musk.
“It’s the first time I see a request of this type in a trade agreement, ”he said Wendy CutlerUS diplomat who spent almost 30 years as a negotiator in the US commercial representative’s office, in statements to the post. “When you are sitting at the negotiating table, This is not what is said”.
Part of the confidential documents details efforts to Press the lesoto – Threatened by Trump with a 50% tariff – to grant the company of renewable energy OnePower one “retention exemption at source for five years”So that it could develop a project to build power grid.
Others Secret Objectives of Commercial Policy of Trump, according to the documents, included Press countries on the border with China developing stronger military ties with the United States, issues related to US military basis abroad and, perhaps the best known, Press India to stop your oil purchases russo.
The supplementary objectives of Trump’s tariff policy, said a state department official, provoked “Shock waves throughout the government”.
“The document caused shock waves in the government,” the official told anonymous to the post. “This is not usually as soon as it works”.
A significant part of the hidden objectives behind Trump’s tariffs focuses on Combat China and its global influence.
Documents reveal, for example, that one of the objectives was to press the Cambodiathrough tariffs, to prohibit Chinese military detachments near the ream naval base, and another was to press Israel “Remove the Chinese Property” in the port of Haifa.
