Trade conflict
“Zero-customs situation”: Musk for transatlantic free trade
Tesla boss Elon Musk is a welcome guest among European right-wing populists. Now Donald Trump’s advisor in Italy has spoken to the customs dispute – with a surprising suggestion.
US presidential advisor Elon Musk spoke out in the customs dispute for a transatlantic free trade zone without any tariffs. He hoped that the United States and Europe could agree on an even narrower partnership than before, said the boss of the electric car manufacturer Tesla, which was switched on by video, at a party congress of the right Italian ruling party Lega on Saturday in Florence. “And as far as the tariffs are concerned, I hope that we are moving to a zero-inch situation with a free trade zone between Europe and North America,” said Musk, according to Italian simultaneous translation.
US President Donald Trump had launched a far-reaching new customs package on Wednesday, which trading partner was unsettling all over the world and sent the stock exchanges on a descent. In imports from EU countries, punitive levies of 20 percent would therefore be due, of which Trump hoped for market advantages for American producers.
During the almost quarter-hour party congress switch, Musk answered questions from Lega boss Matteo Salvini, who is Minister of Transport and Vice Government in the government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Before the Bundestag election, Musk had campaigned for the AfD in the election campaign.
On Sunday, Salvini faces re-election as a Lega chairman, he is the only candidate. It is expected that other politicians from the right -wing populist spectrum such as Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the chairman of the French racial emblem National, Jordan Bardella, and the head of the Spanish party Vox, Santiago Abascal, will be switched on.
dpa
Source: Stern
