US President Donald Trump is preparing to sign executive orders at the Oval White House office in Washington, May 23, 2025.
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President TrumpThreats of social media tariffs against Apple AND European Union According to commercial experts and logistics experts, they reflect a disturbing problem for markets and the economy: the negotiation process does not go like Trump.
“Trump is not wrong that the EU was less coming than other countries, but the EU also has a good reason to be reluctant to get involved in this type of exercise, so they are in an impasse,” said Josh Teitelbaum, a senior Akin advisor. “Trump's frustration reflects this dynamics,” he said.
AppleThreatened by Trump on Friday with a 25% tariff on every iPhone, which is not produced in the USA, is in a difficult place, as he said, as he said a wider investigation started by Trump's administration Emergency of national security related to key technologyAnd the import of semiconductors and derivative products can put iPhones under his umbrella. “He has a mechanism that could take this threat,” Akin said.
But in Europe, the tariff is exposed to the risk of increasing damage to a key trade relationship, which showed signs of recovery. Ocean freight reservations followed by the Sonar Show after the fall of the EU reservation to the USA, the ocean freight reservations have been constantly recovered. Fear is a new threat that it will slow down freight orders again.
Andy Abbott, general director of Atlantic Container Line, an ocean carrier who specializes in European trade to the USA, said that this has significant implications for basic industrial operations in the USA. Unlike Asia, i.e. First of all, a supplier of consumer products for the USAEurope is mainly a source of industrial products that help American producers produce.
“Europe was stable and stable,” said Abbott. “A large tariff for European imports will bring courage, thanks to which American products are more expensive in production,” he said.
Manufacturers emphasized Trump's administration in conversations that all tariffs must take into account the costs of conducting and expanding operations in the US, and administration policy may be contradictory to the purpose of transforming.
In addition, American exporters will suffer as a result of reduced trade. Abbott said that container rates to Europe were only one third of the freight rates of import containers, so reducing European imports raised the rates of US exports, increasing more costs of American products abroad.
“The EU is a significant trading partner, and 50% of the tariff would potentially cause economic damage, and the EU could take revenge, which would further escalate economic damage,” said Timothy Brightbill, a partner in Wiley and co-chairman of international trade practice. “This is a dangerous situation.”
According to Dan Anthony, president of the commercial partnership around the world, Impact would be different in the US, but it would be felt by state.
“No need to add that the 50% tariff would be a huge, expensive tax increase” Anthony wrote in LinkedIn's post.
According to the data of his organization, tariffs paid at the state level last year range from low 0.23% (Indiana) to 2.36% (New Jersey) based on the types of imported products.
“The implementation of a 50% tariff is an effective increase in the rate by 20-200x depending on the state,” he said.
Brightbill said that the EU has a significant number of trade barriers, and commercial negotiations can be the possibility of both agricultural and digital trade.
“There are many many years of trade problems with the EU, for years and years, and I think that is why the administration wants the EU to come to the table,” Brightbill said. He added, however, that he does not ensure that the EU reacts to the way Trump is looking for. “There are many countries and many different views on negotiating, so it will be very difficult to achieve a consensus,” he said.
