Trump rates add pressure on the sick world economy

JAKARTA – Commercial rates The latest new announced on Wednesday (2/4) will definitely drain more energy than Economieglobal What has just recovered from the increase of post -pemapandemic inflation, is burdened by debt records and is disturbed by geopolitical conflicts.

Depending on how President Donald Trump and other leaders in the country now act, it can also be a turning point for the global system that has underestimated the power and reliability of America, its largest component.

“Trump’s fee brings the risk of destroying the global free exchange order, which has been led by the United States itself from the -A Second World War,” said Takahide Kiuchi, the head of the economist at the Nomura Research Institute, as reported on Thursday (4/4/2025).

But in the coming months, a clear and simple increase in prices – and a decrease in demand – will be the impact of new taxes applied thousands of goods purchased and sold by consumers and companies from all over the world.

“I see it as a change in the US and global economy to weaker performances, more uncertainty and maybe something we can call global recession,” said Antonio Fatas, Macro economy at the Insead School of France.

“We are heading for a worse world for everyone, because it is more inefficient,” said Girl, who acted as a consultant for international monetary funds and the World Bank.

Speaking at the White House, Trump said he would impose a 10% basic fare at all imports and showed a graph that showed higher duties for some of the country’s largest trading partners, including 34% in China and 20% in the European Union (EU).

Trump said the fare will restore manufacturing capacities that are very important to the United States. Based on the new global tax that Trump imposed, the US tariff for all imports skipped 22% – the last tariff was observed around 1910 – from only 2.5% in 2024, said Olu Sonola, the head of the US Economic Research at Fitch Ratings.

“This is a game changer, not only for the US economy, but also for the global economy,” Sonola said. “Many countries are likely to end in a recession.”