Come produce in America or prepare to pay customs duties: this is the warning launched Thursday by Donald Trump to the big bosses together to listen to him in Davos.
“My message for all companies around the world is simple: come and make your products in America and you will benefit from the lowest taxes in the world,” said the fresh 47th President of the United States.
“But if you do not produce them in the United States, which is your right, then, very simply, you will have to pay customs duties,” added Trump, who intervened in videoconferencing from the White House in Reunion Annual of the World Economic Forum in the Huppée of the Swiss Alps.
Its appearance on a giant screen in the main room of the Davos congress center was greeted with strong applause.
The event was eagerly awaited after the many decrees taken and threatened since his return to power on Monday. A hundred people were already lining up to return three quarters of an hour before the start of the session, noted an AFP journalist.
– Oil and war in Ukraine –
The American president praised his plans to lower taxes, deregulate and attack illegal immigration.
He also invited Saudi Arabia and OPEC to “lower the cost of oil”, saying that “if the price was lower, the war in Ukraine would be immediately finished”.
In kyiv, the Ukrainian presidency said he “fully” supported the efforts of the American president “fully” to reduce the pressure exerted on Russia, by lowering oil prices, so that Moscow ends the war.
“Mr. President, I am sure that the crown prince of Saudi Arabia will be very happy with your speech today,” Stephen Schwarzman joked the Blackstone investment fund, the first of the big bosses invited to ask questions To the American president from the Davos scene.
The CEO of the Totalnergies oil giant, the Frenchman Patrick Pouyanné, notably asked him guarantees on the security of European supplies of American liquefied natural gas. “You will have it,” assured the president.
Donald Trump has already come twice in person to Davos during his first mandate, attracting crowds each time.
-Among the personalities noticed by AFP in the assistance notably were the president of the European Central Bank (ECB) Christine Lagarde, the patron of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristaline Georgieva and that of the World Trade Organization (OMC) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former American Special Board for the Climate John Kerry, or the Polish President Andrzej Duda.
– “Keep your calm” –
In defiance of their independence, Donald Trump also expressed his requirements to central banks, starting with the American federal reserve (Fed) which meets next week. “I demand that interest rates drop immediately and, in the same way, they should drop all over the world,” he said.
He also took the opportunity to recall that now, “there are only two kinds, man and woman”, in the United States, ensuring that such a decision would reduce the number of surgical transition operations .
Earlier in the day, one of his relatives claimed, the Argentinian President Ultralliberal Javier Milei, had already embarked on an attack in good standing against the “mental virus of WOKE ideology”, compared to “cancer which must be extricated “.
He also defended his “dear friend” Elon Musk, who has become essential in recent months alongside Donald Trump but accused of having made a Nazi salute during a recent meeting in Washington.
The richest man in the world, who denied that such was his intention, “was unjustly vilified by wokism in the last hours for an innocent gesture,” said Javier Milei.
By making the cantor of “America first”, Donald Trump displays values opposite the multilateralism and free trade with which the World Economic Forum has been done for years the Herald.
Threats of surcharge against Mexico, Canada, the European Union or China, withdrawal from the World Health Organization or the Paris climate agreement, the desire to “take” the Panama canal. .
“Even if customs taxes are announced, please keep your calm,” said Davos the director general of the Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Thursday.
Calm that everyone does not share. “God keeps us,” said a spectators who attended the performance of Donald Trump by leaving the room.
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