Katrina Perry
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292 appearances
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3 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 17 Jun
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And I don't really care about the rest of the world, particularly when it comes to trade and the dangling of the threat of tariffs being imposed on foreign governments. I mean, we heard him
enunciate that in a very clear way in his speech at Davos last week basically come and build your products in America or face the consequences we saw over the weekend when he was deporting migrants from Colombia sending them to Colombia The Colombian president refused to take them. And then it was President Trump saying, right, OK, well, face tariffs then if you don't take your people back.
And, you know, there was a lot of technical issues there about how they were being transported in military planes and so on that the Colombians didn't like. But ultimately, they were able to come to an arrangement to receive these individuals back. and Donald Trump took away the threat of tariffs. So he has a very different way of doing business.
He approaches this as he is the CEO of a big company and as he has done business over all the decades of his professional life. You know, as Gary says, it is transactional. It is the art of the deal. It is about doing whatever he has to do to get what he perceives to be best for America.
And I think if President Trump decided to take Greenland by force, defending Greenland from US forces would be the least of his worries because that would be viewed as a direct attack on Denmark. So we'd be into a much more serious international situation.
Well, this is one of the executive orders that President Trump has signed that we haven't heard quite as much pushback and reaction to at this point. And this executive order designating these cartels as terrorist organizations is intended to apply maximum pressure.
Mexico to rein in the drug trade and basically it gives more power to various branches of the US government to impose economic penalties, travel restrictions and potentially even to take military action and it can lead to severe penalties, fines, criminal charges and so on. The flip side of that is that some companies, US companies and others could get caught up unwittingly in
being accused of being part of supporting a terrorist organisation, doing very innocent things like importing avocados. If it's found that cartel members had some involvement in how the avocados were picked or transported, a company importing them in the US could find themselves on the wrong side of the law. So there are some very specific and potential penalties here. Banks as well.
could find themselves in a difficult situation if they have accounts with individuals in good faith. And it turns out that that individual has some connection to a cartel now designated as a terrorist organisation. So again, the devil is in the detail with many of these executive orders and we have to see how they'll play out.
I would just add that having spoken to some experts in the oil fields and in natural resources, the idea about lowering the OPEC price is designed to target President Putin's coffers, essentially. So if he can't sell his oil for as much, he has less in his war chest. Ergo, he has less money available to fund the invasion in Ukraine and that that would put some kind of pressure on President Putin.
Again, there are questions about that approach because President Putin has a fairly deep war chest and it's ideological, his push into Ukraine. And we know he's getting support from North Korea and elsewhere at this point. And I think, you know, one of the questioners there was asking about how much does the U.S. care about Ukraine and so on.
And I think that's a good question in terms of future funding and support for Ukraine under President Trump and this new Congress.
many voters on the campaign trail traveling around, I noticed, and Gary, I'm sure you were the same, were also questioning that level of support when so many Americans, you know, are struggling with the price of groceries, the price of housing, other benefits, and they don't understand why so much American money goes to support Ukraine.
And so I think that's just a watch point people have in the back of their mind in terms of continued support for Ukraine. That also is motivating President Trump to try and want to get a deal done because he wants to cut those financial ties and not have U.S. money employed in other countries and helping other defense moves go. So, you know, I think it's just it's a very complicated relationship.
And obviously, we heard from President Trump last week saying he wants to meet President Putin as soon as possible. President Putin responded saying he was open to having discussions, described Donald Trump as a smart man and President Trump's envoy to Ukraine, General Keith Kellogg.
He has been talking about this 90-day period kind of taking us up into the middle of May, that there might be a deal done. So we're watching for a meeting between President Trump and President Putin before that time.
Yeah, this is the thing about tariffs. I mean, Donald Trump has described tariffs as the most beautiful word in the English language. And he was speaking last week about his quest to be considered the tariff king. But of course, imposing tariffs on another country really raises the possibility of that other country retaliating and imposing tariffs on you instead.
So you get into a situation where ultimately it's the American consumer who could pay the price for any sort of trade war or tariff war. And he targeted the EU quite specifically in a few comments last week. I mean, we've heard him talk about China. Often we've heard him talk about imposing a 25% tariff on Mexico and Canada from the 1st of February.
But he really headed in the direction of the EU last week. And that's a complicated one. And if you take the issue of cars, for example, many European companies make cars in America. hiring American workers, using American materials, but some of the parts for those cars come from Europe to the American factory and then those cars are sold back to Europe.
So you have a potential for things getting incredibly expensive quite quickly if tariffs are layered upon each part of something like a car and ultimately that will be the consumer that pays the price there.
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