The Big Question: ¿Qué significará para Europa la reanudación de los aranceles de Trump?
"Hay demasiado en juego en esta relación como para dejar que se dañe", ruega a la UE el director general de la Cámara de Comercio estadounidense.
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"Hay demasiado en juego en esta relación como para dejar que se dañe", ruega a la UE el director general de la Cámara de Comercio estadounidense.
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00:00Este es simplemente el mayor y más integrado económico en el mundo.
00:0516 millones de trabajos, el equivalente de la economía de French y la economía de Alemania combined.
00:10Hay mucho más atociado en esta relación para dejar que eso sea damageado.
00:20Bienvenidos a The Big Question, una serie de Euronews,
00:24donde abordamos algunos de los más grandes temas en el agenda de la agenda de business.
00:29Y hoy estoy acompañado por Malta Lohan, CEO de la Comunidad de la Comunidad de la Comunidad de la Comunidad de la Comunidad de la Comunidad.
00:36Malta, es un placer de tener con nosotros en el show.
00:39Gracias por venir.
00:41Great to be here, Andrea.
00:42Gracias.
00:42Muy timely discussions at the moment y yo imagino que eres un hombre increíble.
00:47Pero primero, para aquellos que no saben, ¿qué es lo que la Comunidad de la Comunidad de la Comunidad de la Comunidad de la Comunidad de la Comunidad de la Comunidad de la Comunidad?
00:55Of course, the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU is the group that represents American businesses in Europe.
01:01So we have 160 member companies across all different sectors, goods, services,
01:07with one thing in common, which is for decades, in some cases 100 plus years, deeply invested in Europe.
01:12And our role is to help the EU build an economy that is competitive, that generates return on investment and to help build bridges across the Atlantic
01:24and strengthen the partnership that we have between Europe and the United States.
01:27When it comes to the EU-US economic relationship, what are the key figures or metrics that best represent this partnership?
01:36This is simply the biggest, most integrated economic partnership in the world by some margin.
01:43It's an economy that is worth 8 trillion euros.
01:48For comparison, that's the equivalent of the French and German economies combined.
01:5216 million direct jobs depending on that transatlantic economy.
01:58That's a third of global GDP that is represented by our two economies combined.
02:04We are each other's biggest source of foreign direct investment.
02:08More than 56% of American FDI goes to Europe.
02:13A similar measure of European FDI goes to the US.
02:17And so not just is it a source of growth and profits for businesses on both sides of the Atlantic,
02:25but it's actually also a shared base on which we compete with the rest of the world.
02:34What impact would it have on the US economy if this relationship diminished?
02:42The economic relationship between Europe and the United States, of course,
02:46is at the heart of our shared prosperity and our shared success also across the world.
02:52Just think of the breakfast cereal on your table, think of the websites you go to online,
02:59think of where you get your petrol or your electricity when you charge your car,
03:04and instantly you will realize that there are plenty of American companies
03:09which are deeply integrated into the fabric of our economy and which are generating local jobs,
03:18local investments, local tax returns.
03:21And that is really the shared value of the relationship,
03:24which goes far beyond the goods flowing across the Atlantic.
03:27And so if we lose some of the access to each other's markets,
03:34it would be a big burden on the profitability of our companies
03:39and it becomes so much harder to compete globally.
03:43And Molta, what's the sentiment among the businesses within your network that you work with day to day?
03:49What are the main concerns now at the moment for them regarding the current situation with the tariffs?
03:54The number one concern that every single company will express
04:00is about the level of uncertainty that they're facing.
04:03And just think about the position of a CEO or a CFO in this current context.
04:09You are planning to make big, multi-billion euro investments
04:13into your supply chain, into your production facilities,
04:19and you don't know how to calculate the return on those investments
04:23because that calculation changes from one day to the next with a tariff being imposed
04:29or a countermeasure being imposed and taken off again.
04:32And so that creates huge inertia in the marketplace where investments are being held back
04:38and where other parts of the world that are not facing this level of uncertainty
04:45can accelerate their own innovations and their own investments and we will have to catch up.
04:51If the tariffs do resume, what will that actually mean for the EU economy as a whole?
04:56This would be really bad news.
04:59It would be really bad news, first of all, because it would disrupt
05:03those closely integrated supply chains between Europe and the United States.
05:08It would drive up the input costs for companies,
05:11which makes products and services more expensive for customers and consumers as well.
05:17My big worry is that if we go back to a phase of tariffs and counter tariffs,
05:25it will start spilling over into other parts of the relationship.
05:29The biggest benefit of our transatlantic relationship is our investments.
05:35If those start to be affected by uncertainty about tariffs
05:41and by a shift away from each other of the two economies,
05:46that would be deeply damaging for both sides.
05:49At least what we can say at this point is that there is space for dialogue.
05:54Now, whether that dialogue is able within the short space of time available
05:58to come to a conclusion, I think we still have to see.
06:03And finally, what are your hopes for the future EU-US economic relationship?
06:10These days, I've heard others express a hope which was simply that it doesn't get worse.
06:17To me, that would be a sad state of affairs.
06:20So I would like to think that there is more to hope for than that things don't get worse.
06:26I do think that Europe and the United States still have an enormous shared interest
06:33in working together to address our shared geo-competitive challenges.
06:40I do think that Europe and the United States have both to understand
06:47how some of that prosperity that has been generated through open trade
06:52can better be brought to the widest possible part of society.
07:00And I think that this is the moment where Europe also really has the opportunity
07:06to take a leap forward in terms of addressing barriers in the single market
07:12and creating a more competitive region for businesses to thrive in
07:20and to see a return on their investment.
07:22Sometimes it takes a jolt, and that is certainly what we are facing.
07:26If that is the outcome of this jolt, I think that is a good outcome for Europe as well.
07:31That is incredibly insightful, everything you've shared with us there.
07:36So thank you very much for joining us on The Big Question
07:39and for sharing all of your insights with us. It's been a pleasure.
07:41Thanks for having me, Angela. Pleasure to be here.
07:43Thank you very much.
07:44Please do head over to the Euronews website and check out the rest of our shows.
07:49They're all there, and also you can go to the Euronews YouTube channel
07:52and you'll find all the big questions there too.