Among the dozens of political guests, magnates and celebrities who this Monday came to the Capitol and the White House to capture in situ the snapshot of Donald Trump’s proclamation there was a single Spanish businessman: Jaime Malet, the president of the Chamber of Commerce … of the US in Spain, who shared high-level meetings with various bands. One of those contacts was with Howard Lutnick, the new cabinet secretary of Commerce. “I doubt that they will put a 100% tariff on certain Spanish products because that decision would also be very bad for the North American economy itself,” says this businessman when asked by ABC.
The person in charge of this organization, also known as AmChamSpain, is aware that the new Trump Administration may put on the table those rates that affect certain imports arriving from abroad, although he anticipates that “Spain does not have to be one of the most affected countries.” “We have a trade balance deficit,” he insists. That is, the United States exports many more products and goods to Spain than it imports. “Italy, France or Germany, to give a few examples, would be much more harmed” by these types of decisions.
Malet met with Lutnick for a few minutes last weekend, before Trump’s proclamation, and conveyed the message that “Spain is a country to invest in.” For this reason, he urges both “the private sector and politicians” to understand “that the United States must be convinced that Spain It’s not a bad opportunity to become a ‘hub’“from many sectors, from industry, to technology, to energy.”
It is, in his opinion, “an opportunity to generate high-quality jobs to attract and retain talent,” as well as to improve our educational system and our administration. «I believe that the world is being rewritten and that Spain can be there for, truly and for the first time, make history«, points out Jaime Malet.
He insists that “there is a long way to go to increase direct investment in Spain, there are now important sectors.” “We also have the capacity to attract a lot of investment in everything that has to do with a new artificial system and we are a very attractive country for everything that has to do with biomedicine, among others,” he points out.
What Malet also focuses on is the degree of investment that American companies will have in Spain. “That is where the true interest of our relations lies,” says the president of the North American Chamber of Commerce. There are thriving sectors in which corporations in that country want to invest, from energy to technology. “And that is where we have to be attentive and attract investment,” he points out.
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