Does the Federal Council succeed in preventing Trump’s Zollhammer?

A large Swiss delegation flew to Washington on Tuesday. With one goal: she wants to avert the penalty of 31 percent that Trump intended for Switzerland. What she has in her luggage.

On April 23 and 24, they will take part in the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. At the same time, a meeting of the G20 finance minister will also take place in Washington.

Martina Hirayama has been in the USA, State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation since Monday. She attended a rocket launch there and met representatives of the US room trip authority NASA. Hirayama joins the Swiss group on Wednesday.

The delegation is top -class and rare. This is no coincidence. It is economically a lot. Keller-Sutter and Parmelin want to prevent US President Donald Trump from putting the penalty of 31 percent into force, which he announced on April 3., but then suspended for ninety days.

Keller-Sutter meets Finance Minister from Trump’s closest circle

So far, Federal President Keller-Sutter has an appointment with sure-that with US Finance Minister Scott Bessent. This is currently part of Trump’s confidential team. On the morning of April 9, when Karin Keller-Sutter was on the phone with Trump for 25 minutes at 9 a.m. Just like Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, formally Trump’s most important economic advisor.

Thanks to Reuters, you know from Hassett that he was personally present at Trump’s phone call with a basement-sutter. It was « incredibly personable, » he said. The probability is high that the conversation also heard better.

Just a few hours later, Trump announced that he was exposing the tariffs for ninety days. It was US Finance Minister Bessent, who immediately gave the dozens of media representatives. The former hedge fund manager had thus become the “public face of this decision”, concluded BBC. It is said to have been improper who, in conversations on an Air Force One flight, decisively influenced on the weekend before April 9th ​​and on the morning of April 9th.

It is still open who Parmelin meets. On April 7, he had contact with the US trade officer Jamieson Greer. This is considered a customs hardliner. Of all things, on April 9, he was not in the Oval Office, which, according to BBC, insinuates that he has lost importance at Trump.

According to “Sonntagszeitung”, it is conceivable that Parmelin meets Minister of Education Linda McMahon or Minister of Commerce Howard Lutnick. A meeting of basement-sutter with Trump is hardly likely.

Switzerland has a billion -dollar investment package in their luggage

What can Switzerland offer the USA for a deal? According to insiders, there are, first of all, billion -dollar investments by Swiss companies, secondly, a accommodation in certain agricultural tillers, thirdly, the reduction of technical trade barriers in medical products and fourthly the support of the USA in the training of specialists that they need for rein industrialization.

The trump card of the Swiss offer is the investments that could be up to CHF 150 billion in the next four years in accordance with “NZZ on Sunday”. It is known today that Roche alone wants to invest 50 billion in the United States and Novartis 23 billion. Stadler Rail also invests 70 million.

These numbers are very high. This illustrates the offer that Giorgia Meloni Trump made: 10 billion wants to invest Italy in the United States in the next few years, she said. And Prime Minister Meloni represents the third largest economy in Europe.