by for us in washington clear so the u.s. pushing ahead with these tariffs obviously washington didn t get what it wanted. you know this has been a moment that everybody has been watching with great anticipation to see whether the united states would extend these exemptions for some of its key allies and really this comes back to protecting american industries in steel and aluminum and in many ways it would be a political win for donald trump at home among his supporters in these states where those are major industries now of course this has escalated into worries about a trade war american allies in europe canada mexico how are concerns that it goes against world trade organization rules but trumps administration originally announced these tariffs back in march on grounds of national security from a law from the one nine hundred sixty s. saying that it was essential to have america making its own domestic production well as a complaint is lodged as we speak of the w t o the e.u.
a boggling chip in the nuff to negotiations. that s right this is also affecting mexico and canada as you said it s too soon to sits to say whether it s going to actually play into trans hands but it s certainly clear by now that he has been using this as a bargaining chip and again it goes back to the idea that if the united states can come out can threaten tariffs on steel and aluminum can trump can announce such measures that he can then go back to the table in these international agreements in things like nafta and say that he wants to come out of it with a better deal he said that he is willing to walk away from nafta if he s unable to secure any kind of agreement that he sees as favorable and in fact we ve heard at the united states the trump administration saying that these agreements so far are taking longer than expected a corresponding claim richardson thank you for the perspective from washington. hamburg is heaping pressure on the german government to force carmakers to ret
chief says that these you with tariffs on the books still an element of protectionism pure and simple how does the u.s. see this and why this in many ways plays directly to trump s philosophy on trade he s been since his days as a candidate before he was even in the united states president quite a hard liner on this issue and it comes down to his view of the world essentially that the united states has struck bad deals with international partners and that it is not benefiting as much as the other participants in these agreements so you see this as part of the wider philosophy of trump versus the world he said that this was a bad deal and he s willing to act unilaterally and say that he wants to renegotiate things to get a better deal for the united states is this all playing into trump s hands because mexico is also and those who tell a tree measures and analysts say the trump has been using these metal tariffs is
commerce secretary wilbur ross says everyone s going to get over this in jew time while saying washington will enforce punitive import levies on europe canada and mexico european commission president john ford says the bloc will impose countermeasures calling the situation a bad day for world trade president donald trump has been threatening for weeks to impose tariffs of twenty five percent on imported steel and ten percent on al a minyan citing national security concerns it exempted the european union until june first and there were hopes that deadline would be extended for midnight tonight e.u. metal exports to the u.s. will most likely become uncompetitive under the new tariffs the e.u. is drawing up a list of u.s. products like how the davidson motorbikes levi s jeans and bourbon whiskey which is set to face a penalty tariff here and just at a time that i heard levi s were coming back into fashion let s talk to claire richardson about well not about that but at these tariffs in ge
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