All cooperations “broken”: Habeck castigates Trump on trip to the USA. Vice Chancellor and Economics Minister travels to USA for three days to hold talks for cooperation.
Republican primary leader Donald Trump has already said he will increase tariffs if he is re-elected. The German Economic Institute in Cologne expects this scenario to cost billions in damage to the German economy, whose most important sales market is the USA, says the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry. A 2023 Chicago Council poll showed that two-thirds of Americans still support restrictions on imported goods to protect American jobs.