Trump’s “Liberation Day for the US, as baptized by the US president, is approaching after Donald Trump on April 2 is expected to disclose the so -called reciprocal duties he considers to retaliate for taxes and other barriers from other countries, including long -term allies.

Trump will announce extensive mutual duties to states or blocks, but will exclude some.

However, the duties to be announced next Wednesday, Trump are not like those imposed by the US president in his period 2018-2019 in his previous term since the tariffs were more targeted on specific species coming from specific countries and the businesses had the opportunity to support it.

In addition, everything shows that these “mutual duties” that will be imposed and aimed at punishing some nations will fall over other duties, such as those who seem to punish Mexico, Canada and China because they did not stop.

White House Commercial Advisor Peter Navarro told Fox News yesterday that additional duties could increase almost $ 600 billion in the federal government’s annual revenue. In 2024, total duty revenue was $ 77 billion.

If Navarro’s information is verified, the government is planning to collect more than 6 trillion. dollars in federal revenue in the next decade that is four times more than 1.5 trillion. Dollars calculated for Trump’s tax cuts in 2017.

“The tariffs imposed in 2018 were relatively targeted at specific countries, specific types of products, and with several exceptions that came into the game. But now the duties are wider in their scope, both in products and countries, “says Liz Hempel, a partner of McKinsey & Company.

Duties in Trump’s previous term, for example, focused largely in China. This meant that businesses had more options to retrieve their supply chains and avoid import taxes, such as relocating production activity to Vietnam or Mexico. But this time businesses have a much less room for maneuvering.

What they can do according to Axios is:

– Increasing prices, hoping that this will not destroy excessive demand.

– To absorb the highest invoices in the form of lower profit margins, which may affect the price of their share, but keep customers (and the White House) happy. In low marginal businesses, it may be impossible without suffering damage.

– to try to reduce costs for suppliers

– Restore productive activity in the United States, which can take two or more years, given the complexity of creating a new production capacity.

“It depends very much on the industry” how companies will respond, says Liz Hempel. “You think about some industries, such as those that make mining. You can’t get up and move the mine. But I think most organizations realize that they are somewhere in the middle. ”