A US import tariff on goods from over 60 countries and territories came into effect on Thursday morning at 06:01 Danish time. This is reported by the news agencies Reuters and AFP.
It was expected that a number of tariffs would come into effect when US President Donald Trump announced the import tariffs last week. The tariffs range from 10 to 41 percent.
The tariffs affect countries and territories such as India, Taiwan and Switzerland, as stated in the White House's list. Over 60 countries and territories are on the list.
Trump himself also announced the tariffs, 16 minutes before they came into effect, on his social media, Truth Social. Here he describes the tariffs as retaliatory tariffs.
- Billions of dollars - mainly coming from countries that have been laughingly exploiting the United States for many years - will flow into the United States, he writes.
Trump announced and temporarily paused the tariffs in April. The pause was supposed to give the countries the opportunity to negotiate a deal. The countries and territories that are not on the list will, as before, face a basic tariff of 10 percent.
For some countries and territories on the list, the tariffs are lower than when Trump first announced them in April. As can be seen from the White House's list from last week, goods from Taiwan will be subject to a 20 percent tariff. This is less than what was announced in April.
For other countries and territories, the opposite applies. While in April it was announced that goods from Switzerland would be subject to a 31 percent import duty, this has now been increased to 39 percent.
Goods from India will be subject to an import duty of 25 percent. On Wednesday, Trump said that an additional 25 percent duty would be imposed 21 days later - 50 percent in total. The reason for the increased duty on Indian goods is that India, according to Trump, "directly or indirectly imports Russian oil".
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