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Now, I, of course, take comfort in the fact that Donald Trump wants the United States to remain and retain the position of a superpower and for that, you need allies, and I think those allies come from Europe,
Our Polish relations with the U.S. are very, very good and, as you said, we are buying lots of U.S. military equipment, tanks, fighter jets. Actually, you name it, we buy it,
But don't be naïve, there is probably a new shape of the world and of trade systems for tomorrow, so we have to be ready to change, but first of all we have to be united,
In foreign policy, you always have to react to a certain situation, especially when you come from a small state, and you realize that you work with whoever is the president of the biggest superpower in the world,
Stubb told CNBC's Steve Sedgwick at WEF on Wednesday We know how to do it, and we will do it step by step,
Domanski told CNBC at the WEF's annual meeting Europe is a very powerful continent in terms of industry, in terms of savings, in terms of purchase power, in terms of the single market. So, what we need now is to create more unity and to defend our values as well,
We have to stick together, this is very important,
Saint-Martin told CNBC's Dan Murphy at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday But, as a European Union, of course we must and we will remain united in our relations with the U.S.,
So, if I may simplify a little bit, though it is 'America First,' perhaps it should be Europe second, which is quite fine,
President Trump's Inauguration Day policy announcements on tariffs were more benign than expected,
said Alec Phillips, chief U.S. political economist at Goldman Sachs, in a note to clients Pursuing protectionism is just like locking one's self in a dark room. Wind and rain might be kept outside but so are light and air."
Ding referenced Chinese president Xi Jinping's 2017 speech I always say tariffs are the most beautiful words to me in the dictionary,
President Donald Trump said at his inauguration Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens,
Trump said in his inaugural address We're not ready for that yet."
Asked about across-the-board tariffs, Trump on Monday night told reporters in the Oval Office he This isn’t a long process to set the stage,
It has nothing to do with that,
he said when asked directly about the claim by a reporter I think you could call it the blueprint and the foundation for the tariffs and trade policies that may or may not emerge over the next 100 days,
Navarro said of the president’s order I'll quote my predecessor Richard [Galanti]. He'd say when it rains, it rains on everybody. And I think for us, we faced tariffs in the past, and we believe that our merchants and buyers are equipped, as anybody is, to sort of work through and navigate and manage that situation."
As Costco CFO Gary Millerchip put it on the company's December earnings call We view Trump's decision against announcing new tariffs on his first day in office as evidence of the ongoing internal debate over how best to implement the duties, not as a sign of plans to significantly scale back or withdraw his campaign pledges to impose new duties on foreign goods,
Beacon Policy Advisors wrote in a research note One tariff will follow another in response and so on, until we put our common businesses at risk,
Sheinbaum said in a letter to Trump
