The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has confirmed at a press conference that there will be no exceptions for Argentina in the imposition of 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum exports. “We have a small deficit with Argentina, as with all countries,” said the president in justifying the measure.
Trump clarified that the only exception will be Australia, because there is “surplus for the purchase of aircraft”, while the rest of the countries will face the same treatment. “I do not care about the reprisals of the countries,” he said, marking his firm position with respect to commercial barriers.
The decision is a blow to the strategy of the Argentine President, Javier Milei, since Argentine steel and aluminum exports to the United States represent about 600 million dollars annually.
According to INDEC data, in 2024 the bilateral trade balance was favorable for Argentina 228 million dollars, mainly due to the 27.9% drop in imports from the United States, as a result of the economic recession in Argentina.
Milei follows Trump’s agenda
Emboldened by the return of Donald Trump to the White House, Argentine president Javier Milei has violated discursively to migrants, women and sexual diversities in His intervention in Davos. While the ultra -rightist travels around the world, he leaves his signature by Victoria Villarruel, the vice president with whom he maintains rising tensions but not because of ideology. Like the American tycoon, Milei only seems willing to hold alliances with whom they are subordinated and do not show their own game.
The virulent content that Milei has had in the Davos World Economic Forum against every minor Musk for his Nazi greeting. He promised to “chase the left -handed sons of a bitch until the last corner” and recommended that they tremble. A phrase that posted on the social network X with reminiscences to the last dictatorship and that includes all those who do not have a conservative and elitist thinking.
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