The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has initiated a global trade war by imposing a series of tariffs aimed at specific products and individual countries.
Trump established a 10% base tariff for all imports to the United States, along with additional rates for certain goods and countries. Next, we present a summary of the tariffs currently in force and those that have been announced as possible:
Product tariffs (valid)
- Steel and aluminum: 50 %
- Automobiles and Autopartes: 25 %
Product tariffs (threatened)
- Copper: 50 % (from August 1)
- Pharmaceutical products: up to 200 %
- Semiconductors: 25 % or more
- Movies: 100 %
- Sawded wood and wood
- Critical minerals
- Aircraft, engines and parts
Tariffs by country (current)
- Canada: 10% in energy products; 25% in other products not covered by the United States-Canada-Mexico (T-MEC) agreement (T-MEC)
- China: 30%, with additional tariffs on certain products
- Indonesia: 19%
- Mexico: 25% in products not covered by the T-MEC
- United Kingdom: 10%, with some imports of cars and metals exempt from higher global rates
- Vietnam: 20% in some products; 40% in transfers from third countries
See: WTO projects a stagnation of international trade for the tariff war
Tariffs by country (warned from August 1)
- Algeria: 30%
- Bangladesh: 35%
- Bosnia and Herzegovina: 30%
- Brazil: 50%
- Brunei: 25%
- Canada: 35%
- Camboya: 36%
- European Union: 30%
- Irak: 30%
- Japan: 25%
- Kazakhstan: 25%
- Laos: 40%
- Libya: 30%
- Malaysia: 25%
- Mexico: 30%
- Moldavia: 25%
- Myanmar: 40%
- Filipinas: 20%
- Serbia: 35%
- Sri Lanka: 30%
- South Africa: 30%
- South Korea: 25%
- Thailand: 36%
- Tunisia: 25%
With Reuters information
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