President Donald Trump announces On Wednesday, tariffs on U.S. trading partners worldwide said the U.S. would increase baseline taxes by 10% on all products.
The Trump administration has identified what it calls “Dirty 15” As the 15 countries with the largest trade deficit with the United States, this means that Washington imports more trade partnerships from the country, rather than from the United States
However, the White House also marked other “unfair” trade practices it described, mainly through tariffs on U.S. goods.
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President Donald Trump spoke at an event to announce new tariffs announced Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at the White House Rose Garden in Washington, listening with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
China
Washington and Beijing have been trade war Since April 2018, the first president imposed a 25% tariff on $50 billion of Chinese goods.
The next day, Beijing responded to the reciprocal tariffs on 106 American products, worth $50 billion, mainly targeting American agricultural products, worth about $16.5 billion.
Before an agreed tariff relief begins in January 2020, the tariff war will continue to escalate tariffs since the ongoing.
By January 2021, the United States – China Business Council (USCBC) discovers that the United States has lost almost One quarter of the job.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced new tariffs on Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at the White House Rose Garden in Washington, when President Donald Trump spoke at an event. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
The Biden administration and China largely maintained the status quo determined during Trump’s initial trade war.
But Trump threatened to attack Beijing with 60% tariffs on the campaign, and by February 2025, just a few weeks after taking office, he charged 20% of all Chinese-imported blankets.
In the United States, Beijing once again responds to over $33 billion in charges up to 15% Agricultural Productsincluding chicken, wheat, corn and cotton we grow.
China’s trade deficit with the United States is US$295.4 billion.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen made a debate in the conclusions of the European Council from 14 to 15 December 2023, as well as preparations for the European Council, scheduled for February 1, 2024 in Strasbourg, France. (Frederick Florin/AFP via Getty Images)
European Union
The European Union, no stranger to Trump’s tariff war, fought a bigger battle this time after spitting on the metal trade that lasted during his first term.
Trump has announced 25% tariffs Steel and aluminum Imported products are directly transferred to the EU, the largest trading partner of the United States, as well as the 25% tariff on imported cars, which will affect countries such as Germany.
The EU said it could impose retaliatory tariffs of up to $28 billion on the United States.
The United States has a trade deficit $235.6 billion Trump, together with the EU, called “atrocities” in 2024.
But it is not only the differences in trade agreements that discontent the president.
Last month, the White House said specific taxes collected by various trading partners made it “nearly impossible” to export U.S. products, including a 50% tax on U.S. dairy products sold in EU countries.
EU flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on September 28, 2022. (Reuters/Yves Herman//File Photo)
But Andrew Hale, a senior policy analyst at trade policy with Heritage Foundation, explained that the dairy industry in particular has huge barriers to prevent Europe from being able to lower prices to match U.S. products.
“They have a very, very protected agricultural market,” Hale said. “Europeans will not be able to compete.”
Hale explained that Europe bans poultry in the United States, overcrowding often found in mass agriculture, and regulations such as dairy and pork industries are banned in Europe.
Animal spacing regulations and bans related to hormone injections require completely different types of farming, which facilitates quality handling and mass production of animals, making European meat and dairy products more expensive than American products, and the EU is unlikely to reduce such taxes.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke with the media on Parliament Hill after a cabinet committee meeting in Ottawa on Thursday, March 27, 2025. (Adrian Wyld/Canada News via AP)
Canada
The White House also aims at Canada Expect to see more tariffs It fired Wednesday and said it had a 300% tariff on U.S. butter and cheese.
Hale explained that while technically this is correct, it was the first tariff rate negotiated during the Trump administration under the revised North American Free Trade Agreement, which became the US Mexico Canada (USMCA) and has never been implemented.
Large quantities of tariffs are used only if U.S. exports exceed negotiated tariff rate quotas. Otherwise, there will be no tariffs on daily sales in Canada Under USMCA.
Canada and the United States have launched tariff wars in recent weeks after Trump announced a 25% blanket tariff and energy of 10% on Canadian goods.
In return, Ottawa imposed a 25% mutual tariff on $30 billion of U.S. goods, mainly targeting the agricultural sector.
If Trump imposes more taxes on the country’s northern neighbors, it could impose tariffs on $95 billion of U.S. imports.
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How it ends
“Everyone needs to do what Israel just did, zero tariffs on the United States, and then we can have absolute free trade,” Hale said. “It’s fair, we can all get into the market.”
“When you have stupid tariffs (like tariffs you don’t grow up and manufacture), it’s basically unfair.”
