StevenFM
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Verhoging van de tarieven op Chinese producten met 10% en 25% voor alle producten uit Canada en Mexico.
www.vrt.be
Ik denk dat het dure tijden zullen worden voor de gemiddelde Amerikaan.
www.nytimes.com
Trump kondigt hoge importheffingen aan voor China, Mexico en Canada | VRT NWS Nieuws
De nieuw verkozen Amerikaanse president Donald Trump die in januari officieel aantreedt, heeft gezegd dat hij hoge importheffingen zal opleggen op producten uit Mexico en Canada. Ook voor goederen uit China komen er extra tarieven.
Ik denk dat het dure tijden zullen worden voor de gemiddelde Amerikaan.
The tariffs would also have serious implications for American industries, including auto manufacturers, farmers and food packagers, which busily ship parts, materials and finished goods across U.S. borders. Mexico, China and Canada together account for more than a third of the goods and services both imported and exported by the United States, supporting tens of millions of American jobs.
The three countries together purchased more than $1 trillion of U.S. exports and provided nearly $1.5 trillion of goods and services to the United States in 2023.
The costs could be particularly high for the industries that depend on the tightly integrated North American market, which has been knit together by a free-trade agreement for over three decades. Adding 25 percent to the price of imported products could make many too costly, potentially crippling trade around the continent. It could also invite retaliation from other governments, which could put their own levies on American exports.
That, in turn, could cause spiking prices and shortages for consumers in the United States and elsewhere, in addition to bankruptcies and job losses. Mr. Trump has insisted that foreign companies pay the tariffs, but they are actually paid by the company that imports the products, and in many cases passed on to American consumers.
Imposing tariffs on Canada and Mexico would also violate the terms of the North American trade agreement that Mr. Trump himself signed in 2020, called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. That could open the United States to legal challenges, and potentially threaten the pact itself and the terms of trade it sets for North America.
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