United States President Donald Trump raised import tariffs in early April 2025. These tariffs apply to goods imported into the US.
Trump stated that this policy aims to balance international trade relations.
"In recent years, the trade relationship between the US and its trading partners has become severely unbalanced," Trump said in his executive order released by The White House website on Wednesday (April 2, 2025).
"The US has one of the lowest average import tariffs in the world, at 3.3%. Many major US trading partners have significantly higher average import tariffs, such as Brazil (11.2%), China (7.5%), the European Union (5%), India (17%), and Vietnam (9.4%)," he continued.
Trump also mentioned that many countries impose non-tariff barriers on US imports, such as customs barriers, technical requirements barriers, discriminatory licensing standards, investment barriers, and so on.
"This structural imbalance has caused the US to experience a large and persistent trade deficit," Trump said.
Considering these factors, starting this year, Trump imposed reciprocal tariffs, or "retaliatory tariffs," of at least 10% on all its trading partners.
Trump also imposed additional tariffs on many countries, such as the European Union (20%), China (34%), and India (26%).
High tariffs were also applied to most of the US's trading partners in the ASEAN region, including Indonesia, with tariff details as shown in the graph.
The tariffs listed here are ad valorem duties, meaning levies calculated as a percentage of the value of imported goods entering the US.
"These ad valorem duties will remain in effect until I determine that the underlying conditions described above [regarding the US trade deficit and non-tariff barriers to US products] have been met, resolved, or mitigated," Trump said.