By BO Ericson
Washington (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign promises to impose sudden tariffs, including people from nearby US allies -several Republican members of his fellow. Is concerned about their potential blow to their hometown of the economy.
Trump not only faces the deadline for Saturdays, which can potentially hit 25 % of tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, but also faces the increase in Chinese products. It can raise the cost of goods and increase the risk of hitting exports.
Congress Republicans walked on a narrow line when raising concerns about risks without directly criticizing Trump’s decision.
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“I am not a full -fledged and universal tariff fan because it may affect our state community, which is important to our state, which is important to our state.” John Tune, a member of the Senator of the co -party party, told Reuters, who is rich in agriculture. He pointed out that Trump might impose a tariff level of “I can’t see it yet.”
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South Dakota is one of the 39 USA that counts Canada or Mexico as the best export market. Trump has won 26 of these states in the 2024 election, and 16 of these states have more than $ 500 million per year in Canada or Mexico. According to the Reuters analysis of the data of the US Census Bureau, respectively.
Republican Senator Tom Tilis said Trump should definitely threaten Mexico tariffs. He said it was necessary to utilize efforts to hinder Fentanyl and the flow of immigration, and to increase defense spending on the North Atlantic Treaty in Canada.
However, a Senator, who is exporting more than $ 700 million every year by a North Carolina state to Canada, stated that tariffs could cause higher prices, and “you need to be very careful.” Was stated.
Senator Chuck Glassy, Iwa, said that the state exported more than $ 16 billion of agricultural products a year, saying that he is waiting.
“I’m usually a free trader, so my comments will be stronger. When free transactions were the majority of Congress, I was a majority, but now I’m a minority.”
Colombian threats cause worries
One of the members of Glassy is David Walton, a 59 -year -old soybean and corn farmer in Wilton, Iowa. In an interview, he said that he saw Trump threatening similar tariffs in Colombia last weekend, saying that his immigration was agreed by the President of the country, and was an “emotional roller coaster.” 。
“The fact that he threatened Colombia was sitting and realized that this might be true,” said Walton, who was politically independent. “We will lose farmers for this for the current agricultural economy, for activities that are already a little economical.”
Other Republican Senate argued that the first Trump administration has not been worried about the possibility of new Trump tariffs due to the experience of increasing Chinese tariffs.
Brook Rollins, a candidate for Trump’s Agricultural Secretary, told the Senator that if tariffs were implemented, a similar farmers’ support plan was being examined again, but such additional expenditures are tariffs. He said that it could complicate the sales of the president, which is useful for the re -approval in 2017. This year’s tax cut.
“The Republican Party has been standing for a long time for the free market and free trade. The principle of solidifying the United States as the world’s economic superpower,” said the Republican Senator Land Paul. Kentucky Bourbon producers and automakers have forgotten these lessons. “
During the first term of Trump, Bourbon was one of the US exports to countries, including Canada and the United Kingdom, for retaliation tariffs.
West Virginia Senator Jim Justice, who has been ranked 39th in the 50 states, supported Trump’s tariff plan.
“Everyone ran on the street,” The sky is falling! The sky is falling! “But it doesn’t fall.”
Although Canadian officials threaten retaliation tariffs, Alberta Prime Minister Daniel Smith has some conservative sympathy of Trump’s complaints about the relationship between the United States and Canada. By contributing to the economy, we have tried a more diplomatic approach with a recent Capitol Hill meeting with recent Republican Senate.
“We have 34 US States with Canada, and those who have a strong relationship are not that difficult,” Smith said in an interview.
(Edited by BO ERICKSON and Andy Sullivan, Scott Malone and Alistair Bell)
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