US President Donald Trump announced yesterday, Wednesday, the imposition of international anti -customs duties during an event in the White House. Trump raised a board showing the new customs duties imposed on most countries, and the percentage of these fees ranged between 10% and 49%.
Among the countries that were imposed on new Arab countries were the proportions were wrapped in accordance with the customs fees imposed by these countries on American goods, but most of them were imposed on them the lowest percentage, which is 10%.
Below are the drawings imposed on Arab countries according to Trump’s decision compared to what these countries impose on American goods:
- Syria: 41%, while America imposes 81%
- Iraq: 39%, while America is 78%
- Libya: 31%, while America is 61%
- Algeria: 30%, while America is 59%
- Tunisia: 28%, while America is 55%
- Jordan: 20%, while America is 40%
- Qatar: 10%, while America imposes 10%
- UAE: 10%, while America imposes 10%
- Saudi Arabia: 10%, while America is 10%
- Egypt: 10%, while America is 10%
- Kuwait: 10%, while America is 10%
- Sudan: 10%, while America is 10%
- Yemen: 10%, while America is 10%
- Lebanon: 10%, while America is 10%
- Djibouti: 10%, while America imposes 10%
- Oman: 10%, while America imposes 10%
- Bahrain: 10%, while America is 10%
- Morocco: 10%, while America is 10%
In his speech, Trump said, “The commercial deficit is no longer just an economic problem, but rather a national emergency.”
With a few exceptions based on the table read by Trump, the rate of customs duties imposed by the United States on most countries reached about half of what these countries imposed. The table showed that there are some exceptions in which the United States imposed equal rates imposed by states.
