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Donald Trump said the US to impose large copper tariffs and pharmaceutical as the President began his global trading war.
Trump told reporters before the Cabinet meeting Tuesday “now we do COPPER“, Add that he believes the metal industry tariffs are also 50 percent. Trump also said that the US will impose drug imports after an 18-month transit period.
The latest Trump Volley TARIFF It will take one day after he sent letters to 14 trading partners, including Japan and South Korea, saying that the US hits the swift lions 1.
He said Tuesday in other countries receiving similar letters in the days to come, while warned that there were no extensions beyond August 1 to strike trading deals. The President on Monday pushes the previous July 9 deadline to inflict the flowers “Liberation Days”, at the beginning of the early April, which revealed continued negotiations.
The fresh round of tariffs pushed the trade back to the end of Trump’s agenda, which was started his strong manner, with congressional budget attacks.
Howard Lutnick, The Secretary of Trump’s Committee said in a CNBC interview that he expects the residual rocking place to be placed at the end of this month, or early August.
The threat of copper tariffs, used by most electronics, industrial equipment and industrial, sending us Prices for mineral soaring: The futures traded with the CME Group metals at 11 percent of $ 5.58 per pound on Tuesday afternoon. Copper Miner Freepport-McMoran-based partnerships jumped 3 percent.
Analyzes of JPMorgan noticed that “The market will be amazed at the sale of the proposed number”, which adds that Wall Street bank has imported metals.
Chile is the largest supplier of refined US brass, followed by Canada and Mexico, according to US Geological Survey.
Pierre Gratton, the President of Canadian mining Association, speaking billions of dollar energy amounts, such as the Copper industry, as a part of an integrated in North American Industry.
He added that the US does not have enough polishing capacity or copper smelters and depends on Canadian imports in metal, which increases such long tariff tariff “.
Trump also targets the consequences of an investigation to pharmacies, which include completed drug products, and critical inputs of active ingredients.
“We will give people about a year, year and a half to come in, and then they will be strengthened if they carry pharmacies, like 200 percent,” Trump said.
The President says he will make a notice of the tariffs “Soon”. The S & P 500 pharmaceutical index has fallen from the highs of the day after Trump’s announcement, but still closed 0.7 percent.
With a year before the kicker starts at the tariffs, the Washington lobbyists say they did not cause pharmaceutical companies at near term. “Classic Trump Hyperbole,” said a lobbyist.
The US has already announced the steepest tariffs of Autos and Steel as a result of National Security reviews of Pharmaceutions, Copper, Aerospace, Consumer Electronics.
The series of reviews to critical sectors, known as Section 232 reviews, raised uncertainty to US trade colleagues as they tried to communicate with Trump Targets.
So far, the UK only earns any form of relief from the sectoral tariff. As part of the current US agreement, it is awarded a reduced tariff of 10 percent of a quota of 100,000 cars used in most countries.
The US also negotiates the UK in a quota for lowered tariff imports on steel, and promised to negotiate with Carve-outs from harmaceutical comments.
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