Trump acknowledges that Americans may suffer due to customs duties .. He threatens Europe: Very soon

US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he will hold talks later today with the resigned Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and with the Mexican government, after imposing 25% customs duties on products from both countries.

“I will talk to Prime Minister Trudeau … and I will also talk to Mexico … we have imposed customs definitions because they owe us a lot of money,” Trump told the press before leaving his residence in Maralago, Florida. I am sure they will pay. ”

The US President acknowledged that his citizens may feel “pain” because of the customs duties imposed on his main commercial partners, but he considered that securing American interests “deserves this price.”

Canada and Mexico .. and China
After the fog for his threats, Trump signed his decision on Sunday, which he announced, which he had previously announced, imposing customs duties of 25% on Mexico and Canada, despite the free trade agreement linking Washington to the two countries, while imposing an additional 10% customs duties.

The not. At the end of a second week, a second week of Trump, during which he found himself in front of the worst flight in the United States in more than a decade, while his administration is moving to bring in radical reforms to the government, in steps that his opponents condemned as a violation of the law.

China, Mexico and Canada are among the largest partnerships of the United States and the three countries have pledged to take revenge steps when the customs duties enter into application, on Tuesday.

“Will there be some pain? Yes, perhaps (and perhaps not). “But we will make America great again, and it deserves the price that must be paid,” he added.

Trump also confirmed, on Sunday, that European products will be “very soon” targeted by customs duties. He told the press: “They really benefit from us as you know, we have a deficit of $ 300 billion. They do not take our cars or our agricultural products, almost nothing, and we take everything, millions of cars, and agricultural products at huge rates, “adding,” I have no timetable but it will happen very soon. “

Analysts warned that the outbreak of a trade war would likely lead to a decline in growth in the United States and the raising of consumer goods at least the short term, which was something that the president refused to acknowledge after he was considered anger caused by high prices among the main factors that led to his victory in elections November.

Trump justified his “emergency” procedures with illegal immigration and smuggling fentanel to the United States.

But he also expressed his resentment on Sunday from the trade deficit, which he has always considered an indication of the United States in an unfair way.

“There is a big deficit between the United States of America, Canada, Mexico and China (almost all countries!) That condemn (the United States) with $ 36 trillion,” he said. We will not be + stupid country + anymore. ”

He added that the Wall Street Journal, whose right -wing editorial board complained on Friday that Trump launches the “rapid trade war in history”, “working hard to justify … decades of fraud in America.”

The 78 -year -old billionaire has visited one of his golf courses in Florida, to which he was heading at the end of the second week in a row since he returned to the White House.

“The 51st State”
In another publication on social media, Trump targeted Canada in particular, repeating his calls to make his northern neighbor to his country an American state.

He pointed out that the United States is paying “hundreds of billions of dollars to support Canada,” Trump said, “Without this massive support, Canada was present as a viable country.”

He added, “Therefore, Canada must become our expensive 51st state,” he said, repeating his threats to one of the most prominent allies of his country.

According to the American Statistical Office, the trade deficit in goods with Canada last year amounted to $ 55 billion.

A Canadian official, who asked not to be identified, said on Sunday that Ottawa will file a lawsuit before the World Trade Organization against fees and will seek compensation under the Canadian-Mexican-American-Mexican trade agreement signed by Trump himself in 2018.

The official told reporters, “The Canadian government is clearly considered a violation of the United States’ commercial obligations,” the official told reporters. “It is clear that we will resort to the judiciary.”

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged on Sunday that his country would return to impose fees of 25% on certain American goods worth 155 billion Canadian dollars (106.6 billion US dollars), provided that the first round of fees on Tuesday will be imposed on the second in three weeks.

The rulers of a number of Canadian provinces have already announced retaliatory measures, similar to the immediate cessation of the purchase of American wines.

The White House has not clearly announced the specific steps that the countries concerned can take to raise the fees.

Federal reforms
Meanwhile, Mexican President Claudia Xinbum confirmed that she directed the Minister of Economy in her government to “implement the plan B”, which includes unspecified measures after “on (imposing) fees and so on.

The European Union, which Trump also pledged to impose fees on it, confirmed that he would “respond firmly.”

Trump’s radical actions in the field of trade come after his radical management efforts, with the aim of making major changes to the federal government in his first two weeks in power.

The most prominent procedures included an attempt to dismiss dozens of officials and a decision to freeze the financing was stopped by the judiciary, so that the White House was subsequently retracted.

Meanwhile, Elon Musk, Trump’s ally and the richest person in the world, and the “Ministry of Governmental efficiency”, are making moves to investigate federal batches and email systems, according to reports. (Arabic)