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Trump’s Tariff Plans Could Cost Germany 1% of GDP, Nagel Warns
Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel warned that Donald Trump’s threatened trade levies risk derailing the German economy. “If the tariff plans are implemented, it could cost us 1% of economic output,” he told Die Zeit newspaper in an interview published Wednesday. “That’s very painful when you consider that our economy won’t grow at all this year and probably less than 1% next year even before a US tariff plan. If the new levies are actually imposed, we could even slip into negative territory.” Last week’s election has cast a pall over the prospects of the euro-area economy, as the return of Trump to ... (full story)