{"id":213334,"date":"2025-06-25T14:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T14:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/213334\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T14:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T14:19:13","slug":"us-tariffs-not-only-killing-trade-but-chilling-investment-leaders-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/213334\/","title":{"rendered":"US tariffs not only killing trade, but chilling investment, leaders warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Uncertainties created by the United States\u2019 tariff blitz are not only disrupting global supply chains, but also causing investors to delay decisions, entrepreneurs and policymakers said at the \u201cSummer Davos\u201d forum.<\/p>\n<p>The warning at the annual gathering, which kicked off in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin on Tuesday, came as the trade war continued to cast a chill over the global economy, with US President Donald Trump <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/article\/3315560\/asia-rushes-exports-us-trumps-tariff-deadline-looms?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">threatening to reimpose tariffs<\/a> on dozens of countries within weeks.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cEverybody is pausing\u201d due to the uncertainty over US trade policies, which are creating a \u201cvery challenging\u201d situation for global businesses, said Victor Chu Lap-lik, chairman and CEO of the Hong Kong-based First Eastern Investment Group, during a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum event.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIf you were to build an additional plant today, you can\u2019t price your investment because you don\u2019t know what the actual pricing will be three or four years down the road,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cAnd there are feelings that if you invest in certain countries, you\u2019ll get pressure from other governments.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uncertainties created by the United States\u2019 tariff blitz are not only disrupting global supply chains, but also causing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[3801,51,1395,32,1700,1699,84949,3749,2199,84952,84951,3075,84950,1219,16,66967,15,49,84953],"class_list":{"0":"post-213334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-first-eastern-investment-group","15":"tag-hong-kong","16":"tag-italy","17":"tag-liu-qian","18":"tag-summer-davos","19":"tag-tariff","20":"tag-tianjin","21":"tag-trade-war","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-unctad","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-valentino-valentini"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114744443853894612","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}