After president Donald Trump yesterday's decision to suspend duties for 90 days for most countries, The European Union has decided to suspend retaliatory duties on the United States for 3 months to effort to resolve the dispute through negotiations.
The US president suspended for 90 days additional duties on goods from countries with which the United States has a trade deficit. These tariffs began to apply 1 minute after midnight from Tuesday to Wednesday. He did not just suspend customs duties on China; he even increased them to 125 percent.
Markets that have been in large declines for respective days have reacted to this decision euphoricly, with growths not seen for many years. Dow Jones Industrial at closing on Wednesday increased by 7.87 percent, S&P 500 by 9.52% and Nasdaq Composite increased by 12.16 percent.
The markets in Europe and Asia have besides seen crucial growth, and on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, Thursday is besides marked by failure recovery.
Trump announced that, given that more than 75 countries had come to Washington with the offer of trade negotiations and that they had not taken reprisal action, he decided to refrain from imposing an increased rate for these countries for 90 days. At this time, the basic duties, which amount to 10%, are to apply.
Many countries have received a affirmative consequence from the American President. Visiting Asia, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez admitted that the suspension of duties "opens the door to negotiations". Canadian government chief Mark Carney stated that this step would bring relief to the planet economy. Countries specified as Japan, South Korea and Taiwan besides responded positively.
However, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson warned that, although the decision to suspend tariffs is positive, it does not "mean to calm the situation".
On Thursday, the Head of the EC, Ursula von der Leyen, stated that Trump's suspension of duties was a step towards economical stabilisation, and Brussels inactive advocates the introduction of zero reciprocal duties between the US and the EU.
According to von der Leyen, in consequence to Trump's decision, the Union will suspend the imposition of retaliatory duties on the US for 90 days to "give a chance to negotiate". All EU associate States but Hungary agreed on Wednesday. However, the EC chief stressed that if negotiations with the US were not satisfactory, the duties would enter into force. She added that further duties are under way.
In an interview with the British Financial Times, EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen acknowledged that in consequence to the US customs policy, the Community is considering buying more liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the US, which is the largest supplier of this form of natural material to EU countries.
Furthermore, on Thursday, the spokesperson for KE Lea Zuber expressed the hope that the Commission would shortly present its decisions in the ongoing proceedings against Apple and Meta. According to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), both companies are facing penalties of up to 10% of their global turnover.
Although EU regulation issues are announced big techs are not subject to trade negotiations, this decision on 2 U.S. giants could affect the work talks between Washington and Brussels.
According to Kevin Hassett, U.S. president's economics advisor, Washington is finishing work on bilateral customs agreements. In an interview with CNBC, the American explained that the US is considering offerings from 15 countries on customs contracts and are close to concluding agreements with any of them.
Democratic organization politicians in turn accuse Trump of manipulating the marketplace and Insider trading, i.e. the usage of classified information to accomplish private profit in securities transactions on the stock market.
On Wednesday Trump besides decided to rise duties to 125% on China. Analysts cited by Reuter stress that due to US policy, for example, iPhone prices can increase rapidly, due to Apple's advanced dependence on Chinese imports, where these devices are mainly manufactured.
On Thursday, Reuters reported that Apple chartered cargo flights to transport 600 tons of iPhones from India to the US, or about 1.5 million telephone units. This is simply a way to avoid the duties imposed by Trump.
Beijing does not want a trade war, but is “not afraid of it” – the Chinese Ministry of abroad Affairs responded. At the same time, the Ministry of Commerce declared that China was ready for a dialog in a trade dispute with the US.
Goldman Sachs lowered the hazard of recession in the US on Thursday, returning to 45 percent. The Bank besides reduced the real Chinese GDP forecast in 2025 and 2026 to 4% and 3.5% respectively, in both cases by 0.5 pp.
Source: PAP
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