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View all search resultsASEAN to express 'concern' over Trump tariffs
The president's trade war will likely be high on the agenda as foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) gather in Kuala Lumpur for talks this week.
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A worker cleans the carpet next to national flags ahead of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' (AMM) retreat meeting at the Langkawi International Convention Centre in Malaysia's resort island of Langkawi on Jan. 17, 2025. (AFP/Mohd Rasfan)
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outheast Asian nations will express "concern" over "counterproductive" US tariffs, according to a draft statement shared with AFP on Tuesday, after Donald Trump threatened more than a dozen countries with higher levies.
The president's trade war will likely be high on the agenda as foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) gather in Kuala Lumpur for talks this week.
"We expressed concern over rising global trade tensions and growing uncertainties in the international economic landscape, particularly the unilateral actions relating to tariffs," ASEAN foreign ministers said, according to a draft Joint Communique.
Without directly naming the United States, the ministers said tariffs were "counterproductive and risk exacerbating global economic fragmentation and pose complex challenges to ASEAN's economic stability and growth".
Trump sent letters to 14 countries announcing that duties he had suspended in April would snap back -- even more steeply -- in three weeks.
Among those targeted were top trade partners Japan and South Korea, which each face 25 percent tariffs.
Indonesia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and Myanmar -- all members of the ASEAN -- face duties ranging from 25 percent to 40 percent if they do not strike a deal with Washington by August 1.
