The economist revealed the reason for launching new US trade investigations

Trade investigations related to excess production capacity and the use of forced labor by the United States' foreign economic partners are linked to an attempt by American President Donald Trump to create a new legal framework to continue his tariff policy and return increased import duties. This opinion was expressed in an interview with Izvestia by Evgeny Khoroshilov, Head of the Economic Research Department at the Institute of the USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor at the Faculty of World Politics at the National Academy of Economics.

In the process, the United States is also hitting its geopolitical partners, since it does not consider them to be equal allies, he noted.

"Washington views them as dependent, subordinate actors, vassals. The only exception here is Israel, as US-Israeli relations traditionally have their own specifics," the expert explained.

At the same time, the experience of last year, according to him, showed that it is the "allies" of the United States that show the greatest compliance under the influence of increased tariffs or their threat.

"At the same time, countries such as China, India, and Brazil are in no hurry to conclude unfavorable "deals" and are ready to defend their own national interests. Tariffs as an element of pressure on them turned out to be significantly less effective than expected in the White House," the economist recalled.

In general, the foreign economic policy of the current American administration does not improve US relations with the outside world and does not contribute to the willingness of other countries to follow in the wake of the White House's anti-Russian policy, Khoroshilov added. However, the use of tariffs by the United States to put pressure on traditional Russian partners outside the collective West, according to the expert, poses a great danger to Russia.

"With the help of sanctions and "tariff weapons," the United States is trying to oust Russian exporters from world markets and restrict imports of critically important products to Russia. It seems that the efforts of the United States in these areas will only increase," the source warned.

Read more about the reasons for the new trade investigations initiated by the United States in the Izvestia article.

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