How will Alabama’s biggest trading partners hit Trump tariffs back?

How will Alabama’s international trading partners react to the round of the recovery tariffs announced by President Donald Trump?

Trump has imposed a minimum tariff of 10% for imports, whereby the tax rate for products from certain countries such as China and those from the European Union was much higher.

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The risk of Alabama companies that export worldwide is in retaliation in all countries.

The European Union has not yet said how it could strike back, but last month it reacted to steel and aluminum tariffs by announcing tariffs worth 28 billion US dollars for American goods exports.

Alabama exported in 2024 were worth 26.8 billion US dollars, the second highest annual record for worldwide programs in the history of the state. The majority of these exports are motor vehicles, chemicals, minerals and ores, primary metals and paper.

Overall, Alabama’s exports went to 201 countries last year.

The top goals for the exports of the state were in 2024:

1. Canada: 4.3 billion US dollars (7%)

2. Mexico: 4.2 billion US dollars (32%)

3. China: 4.1 billion US dollars (by 11%)

4. Germany: 4.1 billion US dollars (decline of 19%)

5. Japan: 880 million US dollars (decrease of 8%)

Canada and Mexico avoided new duties because the president had already imposed 25% steel and aluminum.

China is exposed to 54% tariffs when earlier in the European Union in Germany was taken into account, a tariff of 20% was beaten, while Japan has a tariff of 24%.

Several nations said that she was open to negotiations on tariffs, while others promised to react to benefits in kind.

The Washington Post reported on Thursday that China promised to revenge on Thursday, while the European Union was preparing another salvation of tariffs against US goods.

According to the Guardian, potential Chinese countermeasures could include mutual tariffs, the devaluation of the China currency and further restrictions on the export of certain rare earth metals.

According to Bloomberg, Canada reacted with 25% tariffs for US automobiles this morning. The Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday that the country would not pursue a “tit-for-tat on tariffs”, but would rather announce a “comprehensive program”.

According to the New York Times, the state of Japan’s economy and the central position of its trade relationship with the United States difficult makes it difficult.