Во вторник президент Дональд Трамп защитил тарифы своей администрации накануне ноябрьских промежуточных выборов, заявив в интервью "Fox & Friends", что пошлины приносят в Соединенные Штаты "целое состояние".

Трамп сделал это заявление на фоне того, что администрация готовится ввести новые тарифы в 10% и 12,5% на импорт из 60 торговых партнеров, начиная с пятницы, когда истечет срок действия временного глобального тарифа.

"Are you worried that the tariffs that you put forward over the last couple of days will hurt the economy as they adjust in bringing manufacturing home?" — спросил ведущий Brian Kilmeade.

"No, because it's bringing hundreds of billions of dollars," — ответил Trump. "I was at General Motors yesterday. They have the best year. They have the most trucks, the most cars. The tariffs have saved General Motors. What I've done to the auto business, what I've done to the chip business. We have chip companies now making, building hundreds of billions of dollars worth of chip plants in Arizona."

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"We are going to end up with 40 to 50% of the chip business from nothing in a year and a half from now," — добавил президент.

Trump также сказал: "It's a shame that I have to go a harder way for the tariffs because the Supreme Court, in a very close decision, you know, ruled against me."

В феврале Верховный суд отменил "reciprocal" tariffs Трампа в размере от 10% до 50%, введенные в прошлом году. В ответ Трамп ввел временный глобальный тариф в 10% в соответствии со Section 122 Trade Act of 1974, срок действия которого истекает в пятницу в 12:01 a.m. ET.

Офис торгового представителя США в четверг сообщил, что новые тарифы, введенные в соответствии с Section 301 Trade Act of 1974, вступят в силу сразу после истечения срока действия временных пошлин.

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Канада, Мексика, Индия и Великобритания входят в число торговых партнеров, на которых будет распространен тариф в 10%. Тайвань и Европейский союз, как ожидается, столкнутся с тарифом в 12,5%.

"Now I have other ways of doing the same thing. But it's a more cumbersome process, you know, the way of doing it. But the tariffs have made this country a fortune," — сказал Trump. "It made the country rich. And I stopped eight wars, I would say five of them because of tariffs. The threat of tariffs stopped India and Pakistan from going into a nuclear war. The threat of tariffs stopped numerous other countries from going to war. These tariffs — it's the greatest thing. And only the really smart people or the people that are nonpolitical and that get it, talk about it. The Democrats know how good it's been."

"We have the hottest car business. We're right now building more car plants than at any time in our history. Toyota just left Mexico. They're building, they just announced, they're building a $12 billion worth of plants in the United States," — сказал Trump. "All because they want to avoid tariffs. They have no tariffs if they build their product here."

Администрация Трампа решила не продлевать соглашение США-Мексика-Канада (USMCA) и вместо этого будет добиваться отдельных торговых соглашений с Канадой и Мексикой.

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Когда во вторник его спросили, намерен ли он обновить USMCA, Trump ответил: "I don't care. I mean I don't really want to, I'd rather have, I'd rather be independent. Here's the thing. Mexico and Canada need us. We don't need them. The deal is important for them. It's not important for us."

В подготовке материала участвовали Michael Sinkewicz, Eric Revell, Edward Lawrence и Sophia Compton из FOX Business.