Donald Trump’s customs duties hit the delicate topic of pricey life abroad | EUROtoday

The abroad French territories have change into full-fledged nations, at the least within the listing of nasty nations to tax, printed by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, Wednesday April 2. Taxed “Exorbitant prices”even denounced Emmanuel Macron on Thursday, because the assembly could be imposed on customs duties of 37 %, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon by 50 %, when Polynesia or the Antilles would endure 10 %.

Polynesia, a largely autonomous territory, might endure. Exports counted for nearly 10 % of the gross home product of the archipelago in 2023, in keeping with the Statistics Institute, 1 / 4 of those gross sales to the United States, the primary outlet of native fish.

Elsewhere, the operational scope of Trumpian bulletins stays uncertain. “The least we can say is that overseas are not commercial powers”summed up Ivan Odonnat, Managing Director of the Institute for Overseas, with the France-Presse company.

The United States represents solely 2.5 % of Reunion exports. The island of the Indian Ocean primarily sells its fishing merchandise – for 42.5 million euros in whispers and a couple of.2 million euros in tuna, in keeping with customs. However, the commerce stability of the French division is basically in deficit, of 13.8 million euros. And, recollects Huguette Bello, president of the regional council, the American resolution “Does not make any sense”. These measures “Appear unrealistic and legally unfounded”she observes, as a result of the abroad departments, of their capability as ultraperic areas of the European Union, belong to the European customs advanced.

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