US tariffs on Australia ‘should be zero’, Albanese says as leaders prepare for end of Trump’s 90-day pause | Australian foreign policy

Anthony Albane, the US Trump administration to Australia, the trade tariffs, the leaders of the world after a 90 -day pause of tariffs after a second “salvation day” announcement should be “zero” announcement, he said.

Relations between the US and Australia have been stretched on countless fronts because US President Donald Trump wanted to cause pressure to remove global imports and defense expenditures for Western countries.

The 90 -day pause in the minimum basic tariff rate is expected to be removed in a 10% way next week, and Albania continued to put forward the case that Australia should be exempted.

The Prime Minister said on Monday, “We continue to suggest that our case should not be 10,” he said. “It should be zero. This will be a mutual tariff. Of course we have a US free trade agreement and we have made clear our arguments. We will continue to do so.”

The US commercial body placed Australia’s subsidized medical system, meat and fruit industries, and renewed media bargain code for higher tariffs before Trump’s commercial organs from Australia.

Separately, Australian steel and aluminum exports to the USA 25 % Tariff. Trump marked that the US could increase tariffs up to 50%and that it could ask for the anger of the Australian ministers, who said that it is not a “action of a friend”.

In the midst of the trade dispute, the US administration called on countries, including Australia, to significantly increase defense expenditures of GDP to at least 3% of the GDP and started a study of the UK and Australia and AUKUS agreement.

Pentagon announced a 30 -day examination of the Biden management agreement at the beginning of June to determine whether the President of the US Defense Undersecretary Elbridge Colby is compatible with the “first” agenda.

Albania, Australia’s “at every opportunity” defends the agreement, and the annual strategic dialogue of the two countries as a part of Aukmin, a part of the UK as another opportunity to emphasize the advantages, he said.

“Aukus benefits three countries: Australia, England and the United States,” he said. “But it does more than that. It benefits the world because it makes our region and the world safer because it is an important deal.”

The critic of the AUKUS agreement, Colby, previously called for Australia to increase defense expenditures to 3% of GDP, while the US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth swam 5% of GDP in response to China’s growing army.

Australia is on the road to raise defense expenditures from approximately $ 53 billion per year or from approximately 2% of GDP to-2033-34 to $ 100 billion or to 2.4% of GDP.

On Monday, the Albanian reiterated that there was no plan to increase defense expenditures when asked if he could increase the national defense strategy in April.

“Fifty -seven billion dollars is nothing… We want to do, not only to help Australia’s defense, but also to be the easier of this advanced production,” he said.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong is visiting Washington DC this week to see us, Japanese and Indian colleagues at the Quad meeting.

Finance Minister Katy Gallagher said that the “defense cooperation between the four countries will be expressed to the Today Show.