The United States of America will impose 30 per cent tariffs on goods from the European Union and Mexico shipped to the United States starting 1 August 2025.
This is stated in separate letters from US President Donald Trump to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and United States President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo of Mexico. The respective letters were made public by Donald Trump on Truth Social.
“Beginning 1 August 2025, we will impose a tariff of just 30% on goods from the European Union shipped to the United States, separate from all industry tariffs. Goods that are transited to avoid the higher tariff will be subject to exactly this higher tariff,” the letter to von der Leyen reads.
In the letter to Sheinbaum Pardo, Trump said, “beginning on 1 August 2025, we will impose a 30% tariff on Mexican goods shipped to the United States, separate from all industry tariffs. Goods that are transited to avoid the higher tariff will be subject to this particular higher tariff.”
Trump has reportedly released a series of letters on Truth Social, and they refer to the imposition of single blanket tariffs on imports of products from the countries in question into the United States from 1 August 2025: 20 per cent duties for the Philippines; 25 per cent US duties on goods from Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and Kazakhstan, Brunei, Moldova,Tunisia; 30 per cent US duties on goods from South Africa, Algeria, Iraq, Libya, Bosnia; 32 per cent duties on goods from Indonesia; 35 per cent duties on Bangladesh and Serbia; 36 per cent duties on goods from Cambodia; 40 per cent US duties on goods from Laos and Myanmar; 50 per cent duties on goods from Brazil.