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特朗普称预计将与挪威就关税问题达成协议
Trump Says He Expects to Reach Deal With Norway on Tariffs
Kate Sullivan, Stephanie Lai and Ott Ummelas
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-expects-reach-deal-184257238.html
Trump says to Norway “Well, they have a great fund of $2 trillion,” “And they don’t have any debt. So I think they’d probably be willing to pay us more than that. I hope.”
美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在会见来访的挪威总理乔纳斯·加尔·斯托尔时表示，他有信心与挪威达成贸易协议，但他并未提出在不做出任何让步的情况下取消其“互惠”关税。
“我们谈到了贸易，我们一定会——我们在贸易问题上相处得很好。我们会有所行动，”特朗普周四在椭圆形办公室告诉记者。
挪威是约60个寻求与美国谈判达成协议的国家之一，以避免美国总统本月早些时候宣布提高关税，但随后又迅速暂停。特朗普目前对大多数国家实施了10%的基准关税，并将在三个月的谈判期结束后提高税率。如果挪威未能达成协议，将面临15%的关税。
当被问及他是否认为该税率会降低时，特朗普表示倾向于通过谈判达成协议，并提到了挪威庞大的主权财富基金。
“嗯，他们拥有2万亿美元的庞大基金，”特朗普说。“而且他们没有任何债务。所以我认为他们可能愿意支付给我们更多。我希望如此。”
然而，在突显特朗普关税谈判模糊性的同时，总统也拒绝透露他寻求挪威做出的任何具体让步或改变。
“我们与挪威的关系一直很好。我认为就保持现状吧，”特朗普周四表示。“你不可能做得更好了，真的，什么也做不了。”
据前北大西洋公约组织秘书长、现任挪威财政部长延斯·斯托尔滕贝格称，此次会谈并未讨论提高关税的问题。
“关税是由向美国销售商品的公司和美国消费者支付的。支付关税的不是挪威国家，所以我们的贫富与否并没有直接影响我们能否支付关税，”斯托尔滕贝格在会谈中说道。他还表示，特朗普“在会谈中没有提到这一点”。
这个北欧国家自20世纪90年代开始投资石油和天然气财富以来，拥有1.7万亿美元的主权财富基金，是全球最大的主权财富基金。该基金是美国股票的主要投资者。
挪威是全球电动汽车普及率最高的国家，从美国进口的商品比在美国销售的商品还要多，而它购买的美国主要产品之一就是特斯拉公司的电动汽车。
尽管如此，据北欧联合银行（Nordea Bank Abp）的数据，美国仅占挪威出口总额的3%，与北欧其他国家相比，挪威受美国关税的影响较小。
挪威目前仍处于欧盟之外，在就特朗普重塑全球贸易的举措进行谈判时面临着尤为复杂的挑战。这个北欧国家一直在与欧盟保持良好关系，希望能够免受布鲁塞尔可能采取的任何反制措施的影响。
斯托尔表示，他担心贸易战会导致挪威遭受“三重挤压”，受到各方关税的冲击，如果全面爆发贸易战，挪威可能会陷入经济衰退。
（更新了挪威财政部长第八段的评论。）
Trump Says He Expects to Reach Deal With Norway on Tariffs
Kate Sullivan, Stephanie Lai and Ott Ummelas
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-expects-reach-deal-184257238.html
US President Donald Trump expressed confidence he would be able to reach an agreement on trade with Norway during a meeting with visiting Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, but stopped short of offering to roll back his “reciprocal” tariffs without concessions.
“We talked about trade, and we will definitely — we get along very well on trade. We’ll do something,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday.
Norway is among the about 60 countries seeking to negotiate a deal with the US to avoid higher tariffs the US president announced and then quickly paused earlier this month. Trump has currently implemented a 10% baseline tariff on most countries with higher rates set to take effect after a three-month negotiating period expires. Norway faces 15% duties if the country fails to secure an agreement.
Asked if he could see that rate being lowered, Trump indicated a preference for negotiating an agreement and pointed to the country’s massive sovereign wealth fund.
“Well, they have a great fund of $2 trillion,” Trump said. “And they don’t have any debt. So I think they’d probably be willing to pay us more than that. I hope.”
But, in an exchange underscoring the ambiguity that has defined Trump’s tariff negotiations, the president also declined to outline any specific concession he was seeking or change he wanted to see from Norway.
“We’ve had a great relationship with Norway. I think just keep it the way it is,” Trump said Thursday. “You can’t do better, really, nothing.”
There was no discussion of higher tariffs during the meeting, according to Jens Stoltenberg, the former North Atlantic Treaty Organization secretary general, who is now Norway’s finance minister.
“Customs duties are paid by the companies that sell goods to the US and consumers in the US. It is not the Norwegian state that pays the customs duties, so how rich or poor we are has no direct impact on whether you can pay customs duties or not,” said Stoltenberg, who was present at the talks. Trump “didn’t mention that during the meeting,” he said.
The Nordic country has a $1.7 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s biggest, after it started investing oil and gas wealth in the 1990s. The fund is a large investor in US stocks.
With the world’s highest penetration of electric vehicles, Norway imports more goods from the US than it sells there, and one of the notable American products it buys are Tesla Inc.’s electric vehicles.
Still, the US accounts for only 3% of total Norwegian exports, with the country less exposed to US tariffs than its Nordic peers, according to lender Nordea Bank Abp.
The country, which remains outside of the European Union, faces a particularly complex challenge negotiating Trump’s moves to reshape global trade. The Nordic country has been cozying up to the EU in the hopes that it be exempt from any countermeasures Brussels may enact.
Store has said he’s worried that a trade war will lead to a “a triple squeeze” for Norway, being hurt by levies from all sides, which risks leading potentially to a recession if a full blown trade war were to take place.
(Updates with comment from Norway’s finance minister from eighth paragraph.)
