Pilar Acosta

3 weeks ago | polytechnique-insights.com | Lucille Caliman |Farah Doumit |Patrick Artus |Pilar Acosta

The inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States has caused various types of disruption. First of all, a protectionist policy with sharp increases in customs duties, the scale and scope of which are still uncertain and fluctuating. For the moment, this involves customs duties of 25% on steel and aluminium imports, and additional customs duties of 10% on US imports from China, but Trump has announced the introduction of much more global customs duties.