The President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will impose “reciprocal tariffs”To the United States allies and rivals, opening a new front that leaves the world on the verge of a commercial war.
“If they impose a tariff or tax, we impose exactly the same level of tariff or tax, it is that simple”, Said the Republican in the Oval Office of the White House by signing a document with slogans about his tariff policy.
The United States allies are usually “worse than our enemies“At the commercial level, he added and stressed that the European Union is”brutal”
The president recognized Thursday that “prices could upload“But expect them to go down.
The US Executive does not want to stop there: it also points to non -customs barriers, such as regulations that penalize US products or the value added tax (VAT) collected by the states.
In the memorandum, Donald Trump asks his teams to make a complete review of commercial disparities between the United States and the rest of the world in order to implement customs tariffs “reciprocal“,”Personalized“Country by country, said a White House official.
The review “It should last a few weeks or months, but no more”He added.
The United States has a commercial deficit “Of more than one billion dollars because the main export nurses in the world are attacking our markets with punitive tariffs and even more punitive non -tariff barriers”Said Peter Navarro, Donald Trump’s commercial and industrial advisor.
Hours before the president was euphoric.
They have been “Three fantastic weeks, perhaps the best there has been, but today is the big day: Reciprocal tariffs !!!he wrote on his social truth platform.
And he added: “Let’s make the United States big again !!!”, His campaign motto.