Fearful, but threatening. The president of the United States, Donald Trump, fears this Friday to see part of his customs duties disabled by a judicial decision, saying that the United States would not rise.
It refers to the dozens of billions of additional dollars that have been collected from their return to the White House, corresponding to the new customs tasks that it has established in most of the products that enter the United States.
Some of these surcharges were considered illegal by judges of judgment, according to which a president does not have the power to impose indifferent customs taxes. An appeal trial is underway.
Backward
Donald Trump seems to fear a legal setback, believing that this possibility would bring the United States back in 1929: “It would be 1929 again, a great depression,” he wrote in his message as he often wrote in capital letters.
The customs tasks applied by the United States are now on average at 20.1%, according to the calculation updated on WTO Friday and the IMF, its highest level since the early 1910s, except a few weeks in 2025.
This theoretical rate was only 2.4% during the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2025.
Since then, the Head of State has established, in several waves, a new surcharge in products that enter the United States. These vary from 10 to 50% depending on situations and countries, not to mention customs tasks that are particular sectors (car, steel, aluminum, copper).
Donald Trump threatens to impose others in the name of the protection of the national industry (in pharmacist and semiconductors, in particular) or to repress countries for political reasons.
Source: BFM TV
