Indonesia and other countries are lined up on Tuesday at a negotiating table hoping for deals with Trump administration over sweeping mutual tariffs announced against them last week.
We come when the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen talked to the top Chinese official to push “the negotiation resolution in the current situation, emphasizing the need to avoid further escalation.” President Donald Trump yesterday warned that An additional 50% tariff on China If he did not abandon the recent 34% of the retaliation tariffs he announced against the US
“What is happening now, the world is in disorder of the strongest economy in the world, which pursues a policy to increase tariffs so high for many countries,” said the President of Indonesia, Subsontia in Jakarta on Tuesday after his country suffered with 32% of the US tariff, the Associated Press reports.
Minister of Economic Minister of Indonesia Alyangha Hartarto added that the country’s government did not take any revenge measures to the US and appealed to the negotiations on mutual tariff policy.
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President Donald Trump demonstrates the signed executive order, introduction of tariffs for imported goods during the trade statement “Make America again wealthy” into Rose -garden at the White House on April 2. (Andrew Harnica / Getti Image / Getti Image)
“What America wants is a balancing of the trade balance,” the AP quotes it. “We will increase the purchase of American products.”
Malaysian Prime Minister Anvar Ibrahim, speaking at the conference on the Investment Conference of Nations Southeast Asia in Kuala -Lumpur on Tuesday, announced that his government and others in Southeast Asia would send a delegation to Washington for discussion, the AP reports.
“We do not believe in the diplomacy of the megaphone,” Anvar said. “As part of our soft diplomacy, we will send a calm engagement with our colleagues to ASEAN, our officials in Washington to start the dialogue process.”
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President Donald Trump holds a “mutual tariffs” schedule, speaking at the White House on April 2. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images / Getty Images)
The news agency also said that Indian Foreign Minister Mark Rubio spoke at the end of Monday, in Hope early in the negotiations on a bilateral trade transaction and that the Japanese Prime Minister is considering traveling to Washington for direct talks on tariffs.
said Trump On Monday, a report on Truth Social, which he talked to the Japanese Prime Minister Shiger Isel over the phone, and that he “sends the main team for negotiations.”
The President of the European Commission President von der Leyen also stated that she had called the Chinese Prime Minister Lee Ten “to discuss the state in the EU-Kita’s relations, since the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties is celebrated in 2025.”
On Tuesday, April 1, Shiger Isis, Prime Minister of Japan, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo, Japan. (Nicolas DATICHE/SIPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)
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“The President emphasized the vital importance of stability and predictability for the world economy,” the statement said, adding that “the president called for negotiations on the current situation, emphasizing the need to avoid further escalation.”
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