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特朗普稱預計將與挪威就關稅問題達成協議
Trump Says He Expects to Reach Deal With Norway on Tariffs
Kate Sullivan, Stephanie Lai and Ott Ummelas
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-expects-reach-deal-184257238.html
Trump says to Norway “Well, they have a great fund of $2 trillion,” “And they don’t have any debt. So I think they’d probably be willing to pay us more than that. I hope.”
美國總統唐納德·特朗普在會見來訪的挪威總理喬納斯·加爾·斯托爾時表示，他有信心與挪威達成貿易協議，但他並未提出在不做出任何讓步的情況下取消其“互惠”關稅。
“我們談到了貿易，我們一定會——我們在貿易問題上相處得很好。我們會有所行動，”特朗普周四在橢圓形辦公室告訴記者。
挪威是約60個尋求與美國談判達成協議的國家之一，以避免美國總統本月早些時候宣布提高關稅，但隨後又迅速暫停。特朗普目前對大多數國家實施了10%的基準關稅，並將在三個月的談判期結束後提高稅率。如果挪威未能達成協議，將麵臨15%的關稅。
當被問及他是否認為該稅率會降低時，特朗普表示傾向於通過談判達成協議，並提到了挪威龐大的主權財富基金。
“嗯，他們擁有2萬億美元的龐大基金，”特朗普說。“而且他們沒有任何債務。所以我認為他們可能願意支付給我們更多。我希望如此。”
然而，在突顯特朗普關稅談判模糊性的同時，總統也拒絕透露他尋求挪威做出的任何具體讓步或改變。
“我們與挪威的關係一直很好。我認為就保持現狀吧，”特朗普周四表示。“你不可能做得更好了，真的，什麽也做不了。”
據前北大西洋公約組織秘書長、現任挪威財政部長延斯·斯托爾滕貝格稱，此次會談並未討論提高關稅的問題。
“關稅是由向美國銷售商品的公司和美國消費者支付的。支付關稅的不是挪威國家，所以我們的貧富與否並沒有直接影響我們能否支付關稅，”斯托爾滕貝格在會談中說道。他還表示，特朗普“在會談中沒有提到這一點”。
這個北歐國家自20世紀90年代開始投資石油和天然氣財富以來，擁有1.7萬億美元的主權財富基金，是全球最大的主權財富基金。該基金是美國股票的主要投資者。
挪威是全球電動汽車普及率最高的國家，從美國進口的商品比在美國銷售的商品還要多，而它購買的美國主要產品之一就是特斯拉公司的電動汽車。
盡管如此，據北歐聯合銀行（Nordea Bank Abp）的數據，美國僅占挪威出口總額的3%，與北歐其他國家相比，挪威受美國關稅的影響較小。
挪威目前仍處於歐盟之外，在就特朗普重塑全球貿易的舉措進行談判時麵臨著尤為複雜的挑戰。這個北歐國家一直在與歐盟保持良好關係，希望能夠免受布魯塞爾可能采取的任何反製措施的影響。
斯托爾表示，他擔心貿易戰會導致挪威遭受“三重擠壓”，受到各方關稅的衝擊，如果全麵爆發貿易戰，挪威可能會陷入經濟衰退。
（更新了挪威財政部長第八段的評論。）
Trump Says He Expects to Reach Deal With Norway on Tariffs
Kate Sullivan, Stephanie Lai and Ott Ummelas
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-expects-reach-deal-184257238.html
US President Donald Trump expressed confidence he would be able to reach an agreement on trade with Norway during a meeting with visiting Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, but stopped short of offering to roll back his “reciprocal” tariffs without concessions.
“We talked about trade, and we will definitely — we get along very well on trade. We’ll do something,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday.
Norway is among the about 60 countries seeking to negotiate a deal with the US to avoid higher tariffs the US president announced and then quickly paused earlier this month. Trump has currently implemented a 10% baseline tariff on most countries with higher rates set to take effect after a three-month negotiating period expires. Norway faces 15% duties if the country fails to secure an agreement.
Asked if he could see that rate being lowered, Trump indicated a preference for negotiating an agreement and pointed to the country’s massive sovereign wealth fund.
“Well, they have a great fund of $2 trillion,” Trump said. “And they don’t have any debt. So I think they’d probably be willing to pay us more than that. I hope.”
But, in an exchange underscoring the ambiguity that has defined Trump’s tariff negotiations, the president also declined to outline any specific concession he was seeking or change he wanted to see from Norway.
“We’ve had a great relationship with Norway. I think just keep it the way it is,” Trump said Thursday. “You can’t do better, really, nothing.”
There was no discussion of higher tariffs during the meeting, according to Jens Stoltenberg, the former North Atlantic Treaty Organization secretary general, who is now Norway’s finance minister.
“Customs duties are paid by the companies that sell goods to the US and consumers in the US. It is not the Norwegian state that pays the customs duties, so how rich or poor we are has no direct impact on whether you can pay customs duties or not,” said Stoltenberg, who was present at the talks. Trump “didn’t mention that during the meeting,” he said.
The Nordic country has a $1.7 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s biggest, after it started investing oil and gas wealth in the 1990s. The fund is a large investor in US stocks.
With the world’s highest penetration of electric vehicles, Norway imports more goods from the US than it sells there, and one of the notable American products it buys are Tesla Inc.’s electric vehicles.
Still, the US accounts for only 3% of total Norwegian exports, with the country less exposed to US tariffs than its Nordic peers, according to lender Nordea Bank Abp.
The country, which remains outside of the European Union, faces a particularly complex challenge negotiating Trump’s moves to reshape global trade. The Nordic country has been cozying up to the EU in the hopes that it be exempt from any countermeasures Brussels may enact.
Store has said he’s worried that a trade war will lead to a “a triple squeeze” for Norway, being hurt by levies from all sides, which risks leading potentially to a recession if a full blown trade war were to take place.
(Updates with comment from Norway’s finance minister from eighth paragraph.)
