Paterson urged Albanese to be “respectful but self -adhesive” when he met Trump.
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“This does not correspond to the free trade agreement in US-Australia,” he said on Sky News. “He must sturdy standing up for Australia’s national interest.”
Paterson said it was crucial for Australia to help preserve global trade rules because they were the key to Australia’s prosperity as a small national dependence on trade.
America has a trade surplus with Australia, which makes it one of the few countries where it sells more than the other nation buys. US sold $ 17.9 billion US $ ($ 27.8 billion) more goods to Australia in 2024.
Australia exported $ 640 million in steel and $ 440 million in aluminum last year to the United States. The cumulative metal trade of $ 1 billion is a small amount compared to the country’s total exports of $ 660 billion during the last financial year.
Trump announced the doubling of steel and aluminum tariffs during a visit to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, headquarters for US steel, in front of a variety of workers in Högvist vests and hard hatred.
“At 25 percent they can sort that fence. At 50 percent they can no longer get over the fence,” Trump said. “No one will come around it … no one will be able to steal your industry.”
The steel and aluminum tariffs were adopted according to trade laws rather than the emergency situations that Trump used to withdraw a 10 percent over the entire toe. The Court of International Trade last week found that Trump had exceeded his authority on the baseline 10 percent customs, but these customs will remain in place for now after a Federal appealed court temporarily agreed to preserve them while the Trump administration persecuted.
The case is likely to be decided by the US Supreme Court.
Minister on employment and workplace relationships Amanda Rishworth called the doubling of metal tolls “unjust”.
“This continues to be a difficult area, but one that we will throw everything on,” she told Sky News.
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