A few hours before the entry into force of the prices for more than 90 nations – including a 104% sample from China – US President Donald Trump boasted that the countries had called and “kissed my ass” in a last effort to sign an agreement.
“I tell you, these countries call us, kissing my ass,” he said during a speech during the dinner of the National Republican Committee of Congress on Tuesday evening, his comments made a laugh of the public.
The president of the room, Mike Johnson, listens to President Donald Trump, speaks during the dinner of the National Republican Congress Committee (NRCC) at the National Building Museum on April 8 in Washington, DC
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“They are. They want to conclude an agreement.” Please, please, sir, will conclude an agreement. I will do anything. I will do anything, sir! “” He continued, without specifying which countries would have won the phone.
The president also criticized certain members of the Republican Party who openly opposed his “reciprocal” prices and try to adopt a bill which would grant the new powers of the Congress, in addition to those existing, to block them.
“I see a rebellious republican, a guy who means the gallery, say:” I think that the congress should resume negotiations “. Let me tell you that you are not negotiating as I negotiate, “he said. “Oh, that’s what I need. I need a guy who tells me how to negotiate.”
Republican rep. Don Bacon du Nebraska presented legislation on Monday This aims to restrict the increasingly destabilizing economic policy of Trump, which causes spectacular fluctuations on international stock markets and the increase in alarms among economists.
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The legislation would put an expiration date on the prices proposed by giving the Congress 60 days to approve them and oblige the president to provide a 48 -hour notice of an incoming duty as well as his objective and an impact assessment.
The Republican Jeff Hurd of Colorado co-signed the bill alongside two democratic representatives, the representative Josh Gottheimer and the representative Gregory Meeks.
“When people are already struggling with higher costs, we have to do everything possible to make their life more affordable.
Meanwhile, Hurd, his republican counterpart, argued that the prices are unconstitutional.
“This is not a political problem for me. I believe that the congress must recover its constitutionally compulsory authority, and I would support this measure, it doesn’t matter who is in the White House,” he said.
The Trump administration hit China with its most severe sampling set to date on Tuesday, after manufacturing power retreated with 34% prices in response to Trump’s import tax, implemented last week.
Early Tuesday, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said that it was “an error for China to retaliate”, echoing the position of the president that prices are necessary to compensate for the United States trade deficit with the world partners.
At 12:01 pm Wednesday, Trump struck again with a price of 104%. Beijing responded with an 84% levy in the United States
Early Wednesday, China filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO), warning impacts of the Spiral Trade War.
“The situation has dangerously increased. As one of the affected members, China expresses serious concerns and a firm opposition to this reckless decision “,” China said in a WTO press releaseSent to Reuters by the Chinese mission to Geneva.
He also accused the United States of violating the WTO rules and said that it was undergoing the agreed and established rules of world trade.
– with reuters files
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