Australia has a unique relationship with the United States that should be used to fight the new world rate regime of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, says the leader of the nationals, David Littleproud.
APPOTING IN ABC INSIDERS, Littleproud says that Australia has the global responsibility to take the world to work to get President Trump to annul the “reciprocal” rates he announced last Thursday AEDT.
“This is a great Mac tax that the people of the United States will feel it in a very lived experience in the next three to six months, because they will still have to import beef,” said Littleproud.
That was a reference to McDonald’s’s impossience, he would have to pay in Australian flesh that matters for his hamburgers empanadas after President Trump applied a 10 percent tariff to Australia.
Littleproud said that Australia should lead conversations with the United States about tariff plans.
“It is not only something that Australia brand, but to assume a world leadership role, to be able to demonstrate that this is a bad policy for the United States, bad for Australia but a bad policy for the world,” he said.
“We have the international responsibility to lead that. Because we have that relationship, we should be able to bow.”
President Trump’s announcement occurred on the six of the federal elections of May 3 with an immediate response from the prime minister who described the 10 percent rate, the lowest rate imposed, as “unjustified.”
Anthony Albanese said that Australia would not apply retaliation rates, but would continue to negotiate with the United States while discarding the key areas.
On Sunday, he reiterated that his government would not commit to obtain a more favorable trade agreement in the PBS or beef, which are the front and the center of US tariffs in Australia.
“We cannot choose which challenges will arise, but we can determine how we respond,” said Albanese.
“That is why we make clear the United States that our pharmaceutical benefits scheme is not negotiating.”
“That is why we explain the fact that we will not compromise the standards of biosafety for the beef of Queensland.”
Littleproud accused the Australian government of being placid with his response to tariffs, pointing out the exemption that Australia received the last time that President Trump put import tariffs.
“We should make sure to take advantage of each position, as we did in 2018, but we also have a global responsibility to lead the world, because we have that unique relationship with the United States,” said Littleproud.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong played these statements.
“One of the things that caught my attention when I was listening (Mr Littleproud) was (the coalition) does not understand to what extent the world has changed,” he said.
Last week, President Trump highlighted Australian beef as part of a wide range of rates, promoted as a day of release for the United States.
“Australia prohibits, and they are wonderful people and everything wonderful, but they prohibit American beef,” said President Trump.
“However, we import $ 3 billion of Australian flesh of them only last year.
“They won’t take anything from our beef. They don’t want it because they don’t want me to affect their farmers. And you know, I don’t blame them.”
The names known as McDonald’s, Burger King and Costco Source about $ 3 billion in Australian beef, which according to the United States is unfair since Australia does not matter fresh meat.
Australia has played these statements, highlighting the biosafety concerns of the importation of cattle.
Littleproud said the world “will try to trade around the United States as much as it can” and that there will be perverse results for long -term American farmers.
The probable growing cost of a Big Mac even for President Trump, a prominent defender of the fast food chain.
Before the 2024 elections, Trump campaigned from an McDonald’s restaurant, wearing apron and put in front of a fryer, in an electoral trick addressed to the opponent Kamala Harris, after throwing doubts that once worked for the fast food chain.
He was also photographed on a plane with a photo of Elon Musk, Robert F Kennedy Jr and Donald Trump JR became viral due to the propagation of McDonald’s food established in front of the group.
In 2023, Trump told the workers in a McDonald’s store in Ohio: “I know this menu better than you.”
