U.S. President Donald Trump said he raised tariffs on imports from Switzerland after a telephone conversation with the country\u2019s leader because he didn\u2019t like the way she spoke. He discussed the matter in an interview on Fox Business, directly addressing the topic of trade.<\/p>\n
Chronicle of the Conversation and Trump\u2019s Reaction<\/p>\n
\u00abI had an urgent call from, I believe, the Swiss prime minister, and she was very aggressive. Pleasant, but very aggressive\u00bb<\/p>\n
\u2013 Trump<\/p>\n
Apparently, Trump meant the then-President of Switzerland, Karin Keller-Sutter, who left office on December 31.<\/p>\n
\u00abWe\u2019re a small country\u2026 Over and over\u2026 I couldn\u2019t hang up\u00bb<\/p>\n
\u2013 Trump<\/p>\n
According to him, the tariffs started at 30%, but after the conversation he decided to raise them.<\/p>\n
\u00abSo (the tariffs were) at 30 percent, and I really didn\u2019t like the way she spoke, and therefore instead of giving her a cut, I raised them to 39 percent\u2026\u00bb<\/p>\n
\u2013 Trump<\/p>\n
Last November, the United States and Switzerland reached a trade agreement that provides for lowering tariffs on Swiss imports from 39% to 15%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump said he raised tariffs on imports from Switzerland after a telephone conversation with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,1982,1983,1202,41,1984,17,23,1985,22],"class_list":{"0":"post-1556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-donald-trump-swiss-tariffs-import-tariffs-us-switzerland-trade-trade-dispute-tariff-increase","10":"tag-import-tariffs","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-swiss","13":"tag-swiss-tariffs","14":"tag-switzerland","15":"tag-tariff-increase","16":"tag-trade-dispute","17":"tag-us-switzerland-trade"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}