Trump announces a 25 % tariff for cars manufactured outside the US.

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced on Wednesday that 25 % tariffs will be applied for all cars that are exported to his country, a new and aggressive measure that intensifies the commercial war initiated by its administration.

«We will effectively charge a 25 % tariff (cars),» Trump said in the White House in an act called for the signing of an executive order to make the tariff measure effective.

The US president had already suggested that foreign car manufacturers will suffer tariffs of around 25 %, a figure that can put countries like countries such as countries such as countries such as MexicoCanada, Germany, Japan and South Korea.

Last year, the US imported products from the Automobile sector worth 475,000 million dollars, of which almost half were vehicles.