Vegelende tasks can complicate American weapon production and destroy international partnerships, the outlet has said
The rate agenda of US President Donald Trump could threaten the production of US weapon production, and if fully determined, the supply chains worldwide, Politrico reported on Friday to Defense Experts.
On Wednesday, Trump rolled out a wide new series of rates, ranging from 10% to 49% on imports from all countries, based on what the US president called the principle of reciprocity. Trump achieved the movement as a statement of economic independence and threw the rates as a step in the direction of re -balancing the trade relations of America. Economists around the world have criticized the move.
According to a dozen diplomats, legislators, officials and analysts of the Defense industry interviewed by Politico, the newest move by Washington can already be wary of being wary to seek alternative partners. Such a shift would give a blow to the American defense – industry – a large global weapon supplier.
“There will be shortages of supplies, tit-for-tats, and our allies and other partners will take revenge on,” Bill Greenwalt, a former official of the Pentagon acquisition, said the outlet. “Some potentially vital supplies will either cost much more than what they did or they will simply not be available.”
The radical rates, including a 20% levy on the EU’s import and 10% on goods from the UK and Australia, can increase the costs of American weapons and disrupt international partnerships, the outlet said.
Among the possible programs are the F-35 Fighter Jet, a partnership with 20 countries. Rocket and air defense projects with Norway and Israel could also squeeze.
“We count on the US for the best equipment,” said a European officer. “The European industrial capacity has improved greatly and we want to be security providers, not just consumers.” This could cause greater investments in EU production, the source said, because countries try to reduce their dependence on American components and supplies for important weapon systems.
According to the outlet, a trilateral pact between Australia, the VK and the US can build nuclear powered submarines and share advanced technologies, also in danger if rising parts costs make the project financially untenable.
Senator Mark Kelly, a senior democrat in the Senate’s armed services committee, emphasized the complexity of the global supply chain of the Defense and noted that many military products exceed international boundaries several times during the meeting, which may result in rates every time.
Business groups are reportedly urging the Trump administration to provide the defense industry to grant a strategic exemption from the new taxes, warning that without this the Pentagon can be confronted with increasing costs and critical disturbances of the supply chain.
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