All Bark, No Cock: Trump’s Latest Trade War turns into another Taco salad for Wall Street | Luck
When President Donald Trump presented his speech “Liberation Day” on April 2 and announced extensive tariffs in a wide range of industries, the markets responded sharply. Investors feared playback of the disturbing trading bits of their first term and the shares fell when they tried to assess how new benefits could curl through global supply chains.
But after six months the story looks different. Much of the initial panic disappeared and replaced by recognizing that the real economic impact of Trump’s tariffs was devised by carving, negotiated agreements and exceptions. In fact, the shares on Friday set out from multi -day lanes and responded almost to ignore the latest surprise from the Trump’s social media account.
Now that Trump is trying to re -enter a trade war of announcement overnight on a number of tariffs, it included a 100% tariff to branded and moved pharmacies and 50% tariff on furniture imports, markets barely respond.
Michael Browne, a global investment strategist in Franklin Templeton, said the markets consider tariffs “above”.
“The actual level of tariffs is much lower, which is one of the reasons why the impact was muffled,” Browne said Financial times.
Another reason could be that consumers have shown themselves as much more resistant to high prices than economists as soon as they were experimented.
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Initially, the news was rattled by European and Asian drug manufacturers. Zealand Pharma fell by almost 3%, Nordisk lost 1.6%and Indian solar pharmaceutical and Divio laboratories fell by more than 3%in early trading. The Stoxx Europe 600 health care index was ran between profits and losses before closing the apartment.
Yet European shares as a whole have closed above, underlining, as investors now compromise Trump’s tariff announcements.
The Pan-European Stoxx 600 ended the day by 0.8%, with the CAC 40 in Paris by 0.97%, Dax in Frankfurt by 0.87%and Madrid’s Ibex 35 leading profits with 1.3%increase.
JPMorgan strategists quickly told customers that the pharmaceutical tariff was “predominantly avoided” for companies that expand the US production.
“We continue to see the very manageable overall impact of tariffs on our great coverage,” said CNBC.
Resistance reflects numerous carving from pharmaceutical tariffs. Generics – which represents nine out of 10 US regulations – has excluded from new fees. The US -Trade Agreement restrictions – the EU dies to most European drug exports to 15%. And companies that actively invest in US production, such as Eli Lilly, Astrazeneca, Roche, GSK and AMGEN, are liberated as soon as ASY spreads into new devices.
They quickly emphasized the analysts that these objections.
“Many biopharmaceutical companies with large capitals should not be an exhibition dealing with some editions of American construction activities,” said David Rising Leerink Partners Biopharma Dive.
The White House pushed back to framing the “Carve-Out” and said that these were the National Security Safety tariffs 232 aimed at taking critical production.
Exceptions to companies “building” American plants are temporary to provide companies to the runway to move production without immediate tourist prices, said Kush Desai spokesman Luck. He added that 15% of the ceilings on many European (and Japanese) pharmac exports reflect a wider trade agreement that included “meaningful concessions that prefer the US”, not soflanting of a tariff attitude.
Consumers
The reaction was known for investors. Initial volatility acknowledged that tariffs rarely land as wide as advertised.
Imports are only about 10% of the US economy, which provides room for businesses and consumers. Many companies supplied goods before the deadlines, while others moved to alternative suppliers.
“It is possible that inflation is going through, but it is not yet a sign of it,” Browne said Financial times.
The mute market reaction also reflects the greater truth: consumers were much more resistant than most economists expected. Data on the department published on Thursday showed that the US economy has increased to 3.8% of the annual pace last quarter, which is its most modest section since 2023, driven by robust households and business investments.
Economists note that Americans willing Grande Grande to maintain shopping, even in the middle of high borrowing costs, has repeatedly surprised predictions.
As the manager of Boston’s wealth Gina Bolvin said, a real lesson may be that “not fighting a fed” was “not fighting an American consumer”.
Taco
The calm of markets also reflect the trade they rely on – what analysts call Taco Trade (always chickens). After the April shock of the “day of liberation”, investors assumed that Trump would be followed by a hist -known formula: sweeping tariff threats, then the oceras markets began to pull. This trust helped the supplies to jump to record the maximum.
This bet was strengthened by exceptions. The effective average rate of tariffs has remained significantly under the main data, thanks to carving and exceptions to companies that decompose on plants.
Economic certainty that tariffs often take months for a certain price pressure to appear at the end of this year. So far, however, inflation data has been stable and has undermined predictions that business policy would bring consumer shock.
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