{"id":40608,"date":"2025-04-22T08:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T08:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/40608\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T08:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T08:39:09","slug":"majority-of-german-firms-fear-negative-effects-of-trump-tariffs-zew-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/40608\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of German firms fear negative effects of Trump tariffs, ZEW finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">BERLIN (Reuters) -More than 80% of German companies in manufacturing and the information technology industry expect a negative impact on the German economy from tariffs imposed by the U.S., according to a survey by the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research ZEW.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The survey, seen by Reuters on Tuesday, showed that 20% of the 800 companies surveyed now even fear &#8220;very negative&#8221; effects on the economy from the policies of the new U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">In industry, 46% of the companies expect negative effects on their business, with as many as 64% fearing negative consequences for the entire sector, the ZEW survey showed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Half of the companies in industry with U.S. exports fear that Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency will have a negative impact on them. At 42%, companies without exports to the United States also expect negative effects, according to the ZEW survey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Rene Wagner, writing by Maria Martinez, Editing by Miranda Murray)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN (Reuters) -More than 80% of German companies in manufacturing and the information technology industry expect a negative&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[32,2000,299,10026,1824,23112,23111,23114,23115,23113],"class_list":{"0":"post-40608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-german-companies","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-information-technology-industry","14":"tag-negative-effects","15":"tag-negative-impact","16":"tag-the-german-economy","17":"tag-zew"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114380718982777195","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40608","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=40608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}