– And due to Donald Trop's customs and the expanding trade war between Washington and Beijing, inexpensive imports from China to Germany may increase further," warns German chadek leader and possibly future Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
"We gotta number on being flooded with Chinese products even more than before," said CDU leader for the Funke media group. "We request to get back on track as shortly as possible," he added. "Consumer protection, wellness protection and product safety must be guaranteed. The European Commission must take urgent action on this issue," he called for.
Trump's erratic style
Merz expects that US president Donald Trump's policy will proceed to be erratic in the coming years. "The United States will proceed to face the planet with very different and sometimes contradictory decisions," said Merz. "I will talk to president Trump about it and effort to find out what divides us and what links us," he announced. Merz plans to meet Trump "in close time".
The leader of the chadeks besides stated that he worked closely with the EC president Ursula von der Leyen and the outgoing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the SPD on uncovering a European consequence to the duties imposed by Trump.
New U.S. customs have affected most of the countries of the world, but to the top degree China. The country was besides not covered by the US's 90-day "stop" in tariff application. The US customs duties on Chinese imports presently amount to 145%, although the US government later reduced the rate for valid imports of electronic devices to 20 percent.
Beijing responded by imposing retaliatory duties. Chinese exports are expected to be diverted to another markets and more Chinese products can be exported to Germany, the largest EU economy.
