According to the text, the 125% increase in the encumbrances announced Wednesday by Trump against China joined the 20% in force since the beginning of March in the framework of the fight against fentanyl traffic. And they are added to existing taxes before Trump returned to the White House in January.
The decree also confirms the pause of some of the customs rates against other countries.
EU, close to reaching agreements with business partners
The United States is considering offers from 15 countries on tariff agreements and is close to achieving them with some of them, the Economic Advisor of the White House, Kevin Hasett, said Thursday after President Donald Trump Trump He lowered some of the tariffs In a surprising turn.
“USTR has informed us that there are now perhaps 15 countries that have made explicit offers that we are studying and considering whether they are good enough to present them to the president,” Hasset told journalists in the White House, referring to the commercial representative’s office for its acronym.
Hasset said that the main managers of the administration’s commercial policy would meet at the White House later on Thursday to “ensure that countries that are most important to take this to the finish line are the countries that we see first.”
With information from AFP and Reuters
