California challenges customs duties imposed by Trump

This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:

Hibapress / Radio-Canada

California challenged the customs duties imposed by Donald Trump on Wednesday, because the state led by the Democrats considers that the American president could not institute them without the convention of the congress.

Trump does not have the unilateral power to radically upset the country’s economic landscape. This is not how our democracy worksexplained the Attorney General of California, Rob Bonta, at a press conference.

The congress did not authorize these customs duties, and even less the taxation of customs duties and then increase, suspend them, then restore them immediately on a whimhe insisted.

Since his return to power, the Republican has precipitated the world in a trade war, returning to decades of free trade.

China is subject to 145 % American customs duties and certain imports from Canada and Mexico are taxed at 25 %.

In early April, Donald Trump also established customs duties of 10 % on the products of dozens of countries around the world and promised other much more punitive taxations, before suspending them.

California, fifth world economy

With this protectionist policy, the president claims to want to return industrial production to the United States.

But in the immediate future, it especially creates a lot of uncertainty and will result in an increase in prices for consumers, bankruptcy of companies and job losses, according to many economists.

California, which alone represents the fifth world economy and weighs 14 % of American GDP, is at the forefront of this economic upheaval.

Cradle of the tech sector, the most populous state in the country is also the first manufacturing and agricultural producer in the country. He depends a lot on his relationships with Mexico, Canada and China. ‘

‘No other state will no longer be affected by the consequences of this uncertainty ”. A quote fromGavin Newsom, Governor of California