the world shock wave – Liberation
The shock. Donald Trump has just erected, live on television on Wednesday evening, customs barriers never seen for almost a century. Massacring in a playful tone the international trade system in place since the post-war period. Since then, the scholarships, like the morale of economists, have been nose in front of the enormity of the increases in import taxes inflicted by the American president on 57 countries (the EU counting for one), including his most faithful allies, in response, he says, « At the scam they have undergone our country for too long. » The list of « Worse offenders » sanctioned was presented on a half -hidden painting by the « Rose Garden » desk from the White House. With a bluish column listing the new customs duties decreed by Trump. They have reached unpublished and unimaginable heights since the 20th century and protectionist delusions of the 1930s who followed and amplified the historic Krach of 1929. Customs rights imposed since January by the Trump administration could reduce « About 1 % » The trade of goods in volume this year, calculated Ngozi Okonjo-iweala on Thursday, the director of a global trade organization in bad shape.
From Brussels to Tokyo, the economic and political world spent Thursday in the mouth of wood, competing with superlatives to describe the extent of the disaster. « A brutal and unfounded decision » For Emmanuel Macron. A
