The EU leader said that it was a heavy blow to the world economy and that the consequences “will be terrible for millions.”
According to her, food products, transport and medicines will cost more, “and this, in particular, causes damage to the most vulnerable citizens.”
Von der Lane admitted that the world trading system “serious shortcomings” said that the EU was ready to negotiate with the United States, but was also ready to answer with contracts.
Lane comments appear when the announcement of customs rates by US President Donald Trump was originally received with reactions made from large business partners, which emphasizes the lack of appetite to a full business.
Trump presented import indicators, which he called “mutual tariffs” and from 10% to 49%, in very simple terms: the United States will make its business partners, which, according to them, they made in the United States for decades.
“Taxpayers were deceived for more than 50 years,” he said. “But this will not happen anymore.”
The president promised that “workplaces and factories will return to the Revoy in our country” and assured that “workplaces and factories will return to our country.” It was not just an economic problem, but also the problem of national security, which threatens the “way of life.”
The financial markets were shocked, and on Thursday American actions fell to 3%, and losses in Asia in the Tokyo market. Oil prices fell by more than $ 2 per barrel, and the price of bitcoins fell by 4.4%.
Leaders react to tariffs
Soon after Trump’s announcement, the British government said that the United States remains a “closest ally” in the UK.
Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said that the UK hopes to reach a trading agreement in order to “mitigate the influence” of 10% of tariffs on British products declared by Trump.
“No one wants a trade war, and our intention has yet to be ensured,” Raynolds said. “But there can be nothing of the speech, and the government will do everything necessary to protect the national interests of the United Kingdom.”
The Italian conservative prime minister, Georgia Melony, called the new 20% tariffs against the European Union as “wrong”, saying that they did not benefit any of the parties.
“We will do everything possible to achieve an agreement with the United States in order to avoid a trade war that will inevitably weaken the West in favor of other global participants,” Melony told Facebook.
The Brazil government said that it was considering the question of delivering the case to the World Trade Organization. Later, in a rare demonstration of unity, the Brazil Congress unanimously approved the bill on reciprocity, which allows the government to answer against any country or commercial bloc, which introduces tariffs for Brazilian products.
Minimize damage
Asian countries, which are one of the largest exporters for the United States, promised to take quick measures to support car manufacturers and other companies that may be affected.
South Korean Prime Minister Khan Dak Su told the South Korean authorities to work with business groups in the analysis of the potential influence of a new 25% tariff on “minimizing damage”, according to the Ministry of Trade.
The Chinese Ministry of Trade said that Beijing “would have been decisively against measures to protect its own rights and interests”, not to say exactly what he could do. China reacted to previous rounds of increasing rates that introduce higher rights to export agricultural products in the United States, simultaneously limiting the export of strategically important minerals used with high technologies such as electric vehicles.
“China calls on the United States to immediately cancel its unilateral tariff measures and properly resolve differences with its business partners through a fair dialogue,” he said.
Some countries did not agree with the calculations of the White House.
Australia Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said that the US tariffs on his country were completely unjustified, but Australia would not answer.
“President Trump referred to mutual tariffs. The mutual fare will be zero, not 10%, ”said Albanese. The United States and Australia have a free trade agreement, and the US has a commercial excess from 2 to $ 1 with Australia. “This is not an act of a friend.”
Trump said that last year the United States bought $ 3 billion in the Australian beef, but Australia would not accept the US Import of beef. Albanese said that the ban on American raw beef was due to reasons for biosaurism.
A 29% tariff introduced on a small advanced post of Norfolk Island in the southern part of the Pacific Ocean was a shock. The territory of Australia has about 2000 people, and the economy rotates around tourism.
“No matter how I know, we have not exported anything to the United States,” George Plant, the administrator of the island of Norfolk and the representative of the Australian government on the island, in AP on Thursday. “We are not charging about anything. I, too, cannot come up with a single non -Aiff barrier, so we scratch our heads. ”
New Zealand also does not agree with Trump’s tariff.
“We don’t have a 20% rate,” said Minister Todd McClay Todd McCla, adding that New Zealand was a “very low tariff regime” and that the correct value was below 10% of the base rate with the use of the United States for all countries.
“We will not try to answer. This will bring prices for New Zealand consumers and will be a violation, ”he said.
Mexico and Canada were eliminated from the last round of customs rights to products, already covering an agreement on free trade with the United States. Nevertheless, 25% of the tariffs for the import of a car previously declared should enter into force at midnight.
Mexico President Claudia Shainbaum said on Wednesday that she would wait to take measures on Thursday when she became clear, as Trump’s announcement will affect Mexico.
“It’s not about introducing tariffs on me, I’m going to impose bets on you,” she said on Wednesday in the morning. “We are interested in strengthening the Mexican economy.”
Canada imposed retaliatory indicators in response to 25% of tariffs that Trump associated with fentany turnover. The European Union, in response to tariffs for steel and aluminum, invested taxes of 26 billion euros ($ 28 billion) of American products, including Bourbon, which led to a threat of 200% of the tariff for European alcohol.
Not enough to win
After reading the list of countries that will be intended on Wednesday, Trump repeatedly said that he did not blame them for the commercial barriers that they have imposed to protect the companies from their countries. “But now we are doing the same thing,” he said.
“Given the inexorable economic war, the United States cannot continue with one -way policy of economic surrender,” Trump said.
Speaking about the business forum in India, President Chile Gabriel Borich warned that such measures, in addition to causing uncertainty, challenges the “interconnected rules” and “principles regulating international trade”.
President of Colombia Gustavo Petro, who previously entered into Trump’s conflict, said through the X that the tariffs celebrated the global milestone: “Today is neoliberalism, which has proclaimed a free trade policy around the world.”
Analysts say that there are not so many to get from the general trade war, neither in the United States, nor in other countries.
“Once again, Trump put Europe at the intersection,” said Matteo Villa, senior analyst at the Institute of International Political Research in Italy.
“If Trump really charges high tariffs, Europe will have to answer, but the paradox is that the EU will be better if it had done nothing,” he added, noting that the EU block depends more on the US export than the other way around.
“On the other hand, Trump seems to understand only the language of power, and this indicates the need for a strong and immediate answer,” Villa said. “Probably, the hope in Brussels is that the answer is strong enough to encourage Trump to agree and soon retreat.”