{"id":16473,"date":"2025-02-14T13:38:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T13:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16473"},"modified":"2025-02-14T13:38:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T13:38:28","slug":"donald-trump-signs-his-plan-for-reciprocal-tariffs-but-with-a-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16473","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump signs his plan for reciprocal tariffs \u2014 but with a delay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;President Donald Trump on Thursday signed his&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/live\/live-trump-signs-order-on-reciprocal-tariffs-days-after-new-duties-on-aluminum-steel-191201110.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plan for reciprocal tariffs&nbsp;<\/a>but delayed their implementation as his administration launches negotiations on a one-by-one basis with nations that could be impacted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Plan shall ensure comprehensive fairness and balance across the international trading system,&#8221; read the memorandum signed by Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The studies of each country could be completed by April 1, incoming Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Thursday while standing at Trump&#8217;s side, adding that then &#8220;we&#8217;ll hand the president the opportunity&#8221; to start implementing them as soon as on April 2.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Nations from India to Brazil to South Korea have long charged higher average duties on various goods and will clearly be in the middle of coming talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump&#8217;s memo Thursday outlined how non-tariff barriers, such as the VAT, would also be subject to reciprocity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;For purposes of this United States Policy, we will consider Countries that use the VAT System, which is far more punitive than a Tariff, to be similar to that of a Tariff,&#8221; Trump&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/113998250121701192\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posted to Truth Social on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That issue is likely to be a sizable stumbling block&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/taxfoundation.org\/blog\/trump-reciprocal-tariffs-eu-vat-discriminatory\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in relations with the European Union.<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LC: VATs are applied to domestic products and imports, so treating a VAT like an import tariff that is just applied to the import, makes no sense.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/donald-trump-signs-his-plan-for-reciprocal-tariffs--but-with-a-delay-191757993.html\">https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/donald-trump-signs-his-plan-for-reciprocal-tariffs&#8211;but-with-a-delay-191757993.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;President Donald Trump on Thursday signed his plan for reciprocal tariffs but delayed their implementation as his administration launches negotiations on a one-by-one basis with nations that could be impacted.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Plan shall ensure comprehensive fairness and balance across the international trading system,&#8221; read the memorandum signed by Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The studies of each country could be completed by April 1, incoming Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Thursday while standing at Trump&#8217;s side, adding that then &#8220;we&#8217;ll hand the president the opportunity&#8221; to start implementing them as soon as on April 2.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nations from India to Brazil to South Korea have long charged higher average duties on various goods and will clearly be in the middle of coming talks.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s memo Thursday outlined how non-tariff barriers, such as the VAT, would also be subject to reciprocity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For purposes of this United States Policy, we will consider Countries that use the VAT System, which is far more punitive than a Tariff, to be similar to that of a Tariff,&#8221; Trump posted to Truth Social on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>That issue is likely to be a sizable stumbling block in relations with the European Union.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>LC: VATs are applied to domestic products and imports, so treating a VAT like an import tariff that is just applied to the import, makes no sense. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/donald-trump-signs-his-plan-for-reciprocal-tariffs&#8211;but-with-a-delay-191757993.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,217,165,272,355,290,314,208,141,226,170,2165],"class_list":["post-16473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-imports","tag-international-relations","tag-tariffs","tag-taxes","tag-trade","tag-trump","tag-vat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16474,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16473\/revisions\/16474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}