Winners and Losers from Trump’s new tariffs

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Donald creates a fresh labyrinth for the latest rounds of the Trump Administration, traders and countries.

Here are protective and unexpected results from the US leap.

Asian countries double hit

Most of the highest tariff rates applying to Asian countries on Wednesday, 37 percent in Taiwan, Taiwan, 32 percent in Taiwan, and 32 percent of Indonesia, for example, 20 percent are above the US.

The vast majority of the region’s exports for these nations will not be covered by a limited list of released goods announced by the White House on Wednesday.

If these exceptions include pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, wood and certain minerals, it is temporarily, the company’s staple exports to the United States are the potential loss of the new trade war.

The flat rate of the EU

The 20 percent rate applied to the EU has created an interesting example of the winners and losers, depending on the individual trade of each member state.

In 2024, the largest trade surplus in the US goods in the United States, the Netherlands has received the same tariff rate and the same tariff rate as Ireland, the same period was reported to be a shortage of $ 87 billion.

Peoples such as France, Spain and Belgium can be a higher rate, but in the score of 15 countries, if 15 countries were applied at the level of individual members, would receive a higher tariff.

It even explains only half because it explains only half, because temporary exceptions in various products create extensive impressive rates for the EU peoples.

The Russian focus, which is temporarily freed from the tariffs, will keep the effective tariff rate from 5 percent.

For Slovakia, this Trump is facing an effective good face of 20 percent high in the production and heavy economy, which is applied in additional tariffs, car parts and car parts.

Friendly fire – US trade surpluses also attract tariffs

Although Trump tariffs aimed to target countries with large trade shortcomings, the global minimum 10 percent tariffs are mainly struggling.

According to its trading figures, the United States has a trade deficit with only 14 to 14 percent of the US countries.

UAE, a $ 19.5 billion surplus of USA, $ 17.9 billion, is the most hit between $ 11.9 billion in trade remains.

Annual trading patterns cannot be repeated annually

The so-called “mutual” element of the tariffs has been calculated using trade information since 2024. However, the import and export trends are constantly swinging, and after the good year of one, the tariff was released.

In 2024, he said that one year before the United States was a minute of 15 countries. On the contrary, the United States has reported a trade surplus with 18 nations who left Kenya, which is one of the previous year, for example, only 10 percent.

For some countries, 2024 heavy trends weighed. Namibia, despite the fact that in the three years of the previous four years, the highest surplus in 2024, the highest surplus in 2024, Namibia received 21 percent of the tariff rate.

According to the initial figures released by the White House, 50 percent protected a thought in 5.819 in 5.819 in a short time. This ratio was based on a highly unusual 2024 for the semi-autonomous French foreign territory, which won a trade surplus by returning part of a few dollars in the United States.

This high tariff rate disappeared, but the white house has disappeared until the official executive decision.