Ex-negotiators about customs: Trump cannot count on Congress

White House’s financial adviser Peter Navarro promised during Thursday evening that the Trump administration « will find a way » to introduce the extensive customs packages presented by the president in early April – a message that has caused the world’s stock exchanges to tremble – regardless of the outcome of the legal battle that is now ongoing.

Trump’s customs decision has been appealed from several directions and critics believe that the president has acted in addition to his powers when he announced « financial emergency » with reference to the US Trade Committee. The latest decision from a federal supreme court went Trump’s path, but the case is supposed to go all the way up to the Supreme Court.

Should the President not have the right With him there he still has opportunities to get through the bill. For example, he can turn to Congress, which normally decides on things like commercial duties.

However, it is far from obvious that the president would get through the customs there – even though Republicans have a scarce majority both in the House of Representatives and the Senate.

One who believes that Trump has acted beyond his powers is John Veroneau, who negotiated trade agreements on the US behalf over the years George W Bush sat in the White House. To Washington Post He says that the president needs to turn to authorities that have the powers to change commercial duties, or seek support in Congress.

He says that there are few Republican congressmen who campaigned for increased commercial duties and that it is very unlikely that enough people would vote to introduce the sweeping ten percent trading tariffs introduced by the president against almost the entire world.

At the same time as it Legal dispute is ongoing, the White House and Finance Minister Scott Bessent work to negotiate trade agreements with countries to which the United States has temporarily postponed customs.

Trump recently postponed a decision on 50 percent trade tariffs against the EU until July 9 to « create room for negotiations ».

Bernd Lange, chairman of the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade, says that means a « slightly better negotiating position » for Europe that some of the commercial duties that Trump notified unless even seems approved by the domestic laws.

In parallel, the United States negotiates And China, the world’s two largest economies, on a trade agreement after the countries agreed to postpone customs duties temporarily. On Friday, Donald Trump is accusing Beijing of breaking the agreement in a post on Truth Social.

That China is said to have violated the agreement « may not be so surprising to everyone, » the president writes.

Trump advisor Stephen Miller says later on Friday that the White House « has already taken action » towards China, Reuters reports.

The Chinese Embassy in Washington has responded to Trump’s play to urge the United States to « maintain consensus »

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