Trump initially exposes tariffs against Mexico

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Lerato Khumalo

Chancellor Olaf Scholz threatens Donald Trump. Great Britain wants to spare punishment for the time being. All developments in the news blog.

4.30 p.m.: US President Donald Trump apparently shifts the beginning of the tariffs he imposed on the neighboring state of Mexico by one month. This is announced by the Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo. She had a good conversation with Trump and met several agreements, she continues. Accordingly, Mexico immediately supports border protection on the border with the United States with 10,000 other national guards. The United States, in turn, support the fight against the smuggling of high -performance weapons to Mexico.

12.46 p.m.: After the criticism of US Vice President JD Vance to Denmark, the Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen praised her country as one of the “most important and best allies” in the United States. Denmark fights “side by side with the Americans for many, many decades,” says Frederiksen in front of press representatives in Brussels. Previously, Vance Denmark had described a “not a good ally”.

Frederiksen rejects Vance’s accusation and says that she does not want to “describe Denmark as a bad ally”. Denmark will continue to strive for a good relationship with the USA. “Denmark’s answer is to strengthen alliances,” says Frederiksen, emphasizing the transatlantic alliance.

Vice President Vance had underlined the importance of Greenland for the “national security” of the United States in an interview with the right-wing US television broadcaster Fox News last Sunday and at the same time criticized Denmark. “Of course, Denmark, the Greenland controlled, does not do his job and is not a good ally,” Vance told the US broadcaster.

11.45 p.m.: “Trump’s customs policy is harmful to the growth prospects of the global economy and also the USA itself,” says BDI expert Wolfgang Niedermark. “We rely on the fact that corporate representatives in the United States use their influence on the government in Washington to prevent an escalation of the trade conflicts. We are looking for the end of the shoulder with our American partner associations.”

German industry is directly affected by the tariffs imposed, since it also supplies the US market from works in Mexico and Canada. “The German economy threatens a noticeable damper.”

11:31: Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) threatens US President Donald Trump in the case of tariffs on EU products with countermeasures. The European Union is a strong economic area and can “react to customs policies with customs policies,” says Scholz at an informal EU summit in Brussels. “We will and will do that,” he emphasizes.

France’s President Emmanuel Macron comments similarly: If the EU was “attacked at trading topics, Europe would have to get respect and therefore react as a confident power,” he says. Poland Prime Minister Donald Tusk says that the EU has to “do everything possible to avoid these completely unnecessary and stupid tariff hurdles or trade wars.

10:57 am: Donald Trump demands that the US trade deficit should shrink. However, his solutions may change little in the balance sheet. Read more about this here.

7.39 a.m.: US President Donald Trump apparently does not want to raise tariffs against Great Britain for the time being. “We will see what happens. It could happen (with Great Britain),” says Trump in Washington. However, he thinks an agreement with London is possible.

The British Prime Minister Keir Strandmer was “very nice,” said Trump. “We had a few meetings, we had numerous phone calls, we get along very well, and we will see whether we can compensate for them or not,” he adds with a view to the trade balance with the UK.