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The deployment has already started,
she told reporters a day after announcing a last-minute deal with Trump to tighten measures against illegal migration and cross-border smuggling of the drug fentanyl I want the North Vietnamese to believe that I’ve reached the point that I might do anything to stop the war.”
In 1968, Richard Nixon told his chief of staff, HR Haldeman If our commercial interests are attacked, Europe, as a true power, will have to make itself respected and therefore react.”
As the French president, Emmanuel Macron, has said Election day, was I happy this guy won? One hundred per cent I was. But then the guy pulled out the knife and fucking yanked it into us. We’re supposed to be his closest allies, his closest friend. It’s terrible.”
Doug Ford, the centre-right Ontario premier, was filmed saying on Monday Given the wide-ranging negative implications for industrial production in the U.S., we expect this is unlikely to happen in practice,
the Bernstein analysts said People generally don’t understand how dependent the global economy is for those kinds of intermediate goods, raw materials, that we sort of take for granted,
Willy Shih, an economist at Harvard Business School, told PackagingDive.com Total impact to #gasprices in these areas could be 25-75c/gal, dependent on season and refining factors as well if tariffs go through,
There is probably not a single assembly plant in Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and Texas that would not immediately be affected by a 25 percent tariff.”
Patrick Anderson, chief executive of Anderson Economic Group, a consulting firm in Michigan, told the New York Times They need to understand where their exposures are,
It appears there’s a temporary pause on tariffs against Mexico and Canada. However, tariffs on China are likely to take effect on February 4, and President Trump has signalled additional tariffs against the EU and others. So yes, we could be heading into a trade war,
Nadjibulla told Al Jazeera Fundamentally it’s very good news that tariffs have been paused and Canada needs to do everything possible to engage with Trump – work on border security issues etc,
Vina Nadjibulla, vice president, research and strategy at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, told Al Jazeera But beyond the immediate crisis, we need to work on structural issues that led to this over-dependence on the US. We need to build capacity to export [to places other than the] US and invest in our own competitiveness,
Yes. Both the tariffs themselves and any mitigation measures – such as subsidies or support programmes for affected sectors – will contribute to inflation,
Consumers will shoulder much of the burden through higher prices, but businesses will also feel the impact. Industries such as the Canadian and US auto sectors may be especially hard-hit,
Nadjibulla from the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada said During 2018-2020, President Trump mainly used tariffs as a bargaining chip,
Nadjibulla told Al Jazeera Where possible, buying local products and avoiding certain imports may help consumers manage rising costs,
Nadjibulla told Al Jazeera China is not afraid of the US in the tariff war, and in the past seven years we have known that Trump will push further,
said Wang Wen, the dean of the Chongyang institute for financial studies at Renmin University in Beijing While we are not as pessimistic as many in markets on the impact of tariffs on China’s growth trajectory, it’s likely that for China to be able to see stable growth in 2025, we will need to see the domestic demand side picking up the slack.”
Economists at Ing noted earlier this month When the US tariffs took effect, China launched another tariff. I think it is quite normal,
Steven Leung of UOB Kay Hian, a Singaporean brokerage firm, told Reuters It's one of the things that we're going to have to live with, these swings back and forth,
said Keith Lerner, co-chief investment officer at Truist Advisory Services in Atlanta
