
US President Donald Trump gestures before his departure for Joint Base Andrews en route to Florida, at the White House, in Washington DC, US, March 14, 2025. — Reuters
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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump doubled the sweeping prices of countries around the world on Saturday, and pushed the Americans ahead, but promised historic investment and prosperity.
These comments came when Trump’s wider taxes influenced the move that could enhance retaliation and trade tensions that could disturb the global economy.
Trump wrote on the social platform of his truth, “We have been a dumb and helpless ‘whipping post’, but not now. We are bringing jobs and business back as never before.”
“This is an economic revolution, and we will win,” he added. “Strict execution, it will not be easy, but the final result will be historic.”
Immediately at midnight. Later, 10 % of the ‘baseline’ tariffs came to its place, targeting most US imports, besides Mexico and Canada, when Trump called for emergency economic powers to address the country’s trade deficit.
The White House said trade space, relations and other policies are driven by “mutual absence” such as “high -cost tax increases”.
Come on April 9, about 60 60 commercial partners – including the European Union, Japan and China – will face even higher rates according to each economy.
Already, Trump’s sharp 34 % tariff on Chinese goods, developed to kick next week, mobilized Beijing’s 34 % tariff on US products from April 10.
Beijing also said it would sue the United States in the World Trade Organization (WTO) and limit the export of rare land elements used in medical and electronics technology at the end of the highest.
“China has been targeted far more than the United States, not even closer,” Trump said in his position. “They and many other nations have treated us unstable.”
But other major trade partners withdrew the diagnosis between the recession concerns after the international level was digested.
Elimination of markets
Wall Street went to free fall on Friday after a similar end in Asia and Europe.
Economists have also warned that revenue can reduce growth and fuel inflation.
However, Trump’s latest taxes are significant.
They do not stack the recently applied 25 % tariff, which imports steel, aluminum and automobiles.
The White House said that temporarily includes “some major minerals” and energy products, as well as copper, pharmaceutical, semiconductor and wood.
But Trump has ordered copper and wood investigation, which can soon lead to more duties.
It has threatened that other industries such as pharmaceutical and semiconductor will also be targeted, which means that any recovery can be restricted.
Canada and Mexico are not affected by the latest move because they already face up to 25 % of the duties on goods entering the United States out of North America’s trade deal.
The risk of retaliation
Although Trump’s surprise deadline allows a place to talk to countries, “if they cannot recover, they are likely to retaliate, as China is already.”
The block, which faces a 20 % tariff, which is facing a 20 % tariff, will work in a phased manner, “said European Union trade chief Maros Saifkovich.
But he said, “Will not stand with him”.
France and Germany have said that the European Union can respond by imposing taxes on US technology companies.
The Japanese Prime Minister called for a “calm head” by the Japanese Prime Minister after unveiling 24 % of revenue on Japanese -made goods.
Meanwhile, Trump said he made a “very fruitful” call with the Vietnam leader, in which imports of the Southeast Asian Manufacturing Center are unusual 46 % of US duties.
Since returning to the presidency, Trump has hit imports from Canada and Mexico with taxes about illegal immigration and phenothenary trafficking, and has imposed a 20 % additional rate on goods from China.
Come on April 9, an additional tax on Chinese products this year will reach 54 %.
This week, 25 percent of Trump’s auto prices were also implemented, and Jeep owner Stellats has stopped production in some Canada and Mexico Assembly plants.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said, “Trump’s new global” Smot -Holy Tariff Act is a sign of the most clearer tariff rise, in which the 1930s are the best remembered to mobilize the World Trade War and deepen great depression. “
Oxford Economics estimates that this action will bring an average effective US tariff rate to 24 %, “more than viewers in the 1930s”.