The US president plans to apply these new customs duties on car imports from overseas from April 2nd. The news has provoked a reaction from many exporting countries, including the EU, but also from the American manufacturers themselves, who are relocating.
Donald Trump has once again dug up the hatchet in the tariff war.
On March 26, he announced the introduction of 25% additional tariffs on “all cars not made in the United States”, starting on April 2.
The rate applied until now being 2.5%, imported cars will therefore now be taxed at 27.5%.
For the American President, it is a question of “making the countries that do business in our country and take our wealth pay” …
Donald Trump uncompromising
Eager to respond to Donald Trump’s threats to impose 25% taxes on imported steel and aluminum, the EU had, however, recently decided to postpone for two weeks, until mid-April, the implementation of taxes on a list of American products, reserving the time to negotiate with the Uncle Sam administration. But Donald Trump is clearly not to be appeased.
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