If the program is implemented as planned, this can violate the global supply chains, the article said. It can also make American weapons more expensive and complicate international efforts to counteract China, Politico notes.
According to more than a dozen diplomats, legislators, officials and analysts of the defense industry, with whom the journalists of the publication spoke, the current US approach may lead to the fact that skeptical partners will begin to look for other ways of cooperation. They say that this will undermine the industry that supplies most of the world.
The Pentagon spent decades on the creation, financing and cultivation of the global network of suppliers and companies that are now faced with duties, the article says. Having made no exceptions to the defense sphere, the Trump administration can negate a majority of this work, Politico notes.
As the former Pentagon employee predicts Bill Greenwart, there will be a lack of supply, and the allies and other partners will take response. Some potentially vital supplies will either cost much more than they cost, or they simply will not, he said.
It is noted that in other countries partnerships with Washington, built over the years of meetings and agreements, are now called into question. Now Europe is trying to invest more in its own production in order to reduce dependence on American parts and supplies for weapons, one of the interlocutors of Politico said.
In particular, the promising initiative of the era of the former US President Joe Biden, uniting Australia, Great Britain and the United States for the construction of atomic submarines and technology exchange, can end if the prices for components are too high, the article said.
Senator-Democrat Mark Kelly, a high-ranking member of the Senate for the Armed Forces, noted that the global supply chain is so complicated that some types of defense products cross the borders several times during the assembly process, each time on the whole duties. Therefore, the US defense budget, if you maintain the same level of the armed forces as now, will significantly grow, he said.
Context
April 2 Trump announced the introduction of duties on the import of goods from many countries, including Ukraine, the EU, China and the UK. According to him, he introduces a basic fee of 10% for all goods from all countries, with the exception of the relevant conditions of the free trade agreement between Mexico, Canada and the United States. He emphasized that goods that do not comply with this agreement will be further taxed in the amount of 25%.
The head of the White House added that importers will begin to pay the basic fee from April 5, and higher rates for different partners will begin to operate on April 9. Trump noted that the American authorities introduced “relevant tariffs” for all countries in the amount “about half of the fact that they are levy from us.”
Under the effect of duties The uninhabited volcanic islands near Antarctica fell, I drew the attention of The Guardian.
A number of leaders of countries New global mutual duties were condemned, including China.
April 3 Trump said he was ready To reduce import tariffs if other countries offer him something “phenomenal”.
On the same day, he said that he was ready to give China to relieve new duties if Beijing approves an agreement providing for the branch of the Chinese company BYTEDANCE from the Tiktok application in the United States, the agency writes EFE. At the same time, he clarified that he is now not conducting specific negotiations with Beijing on this issue.
