Pradales is of the opinion that ties with the US should be strengthened despite the “tariff threats”

The Lehendakari, Pradales ImanolDuring a meeting with Basque companies in Washington, it assumed that, despite the “tariff threats”, the Basque autonomous community (CAV) should look in the long term and strengthen ties with the United States.

Pradales has been in Washington since Monday First official trip to the United States And this Tuesday he met companies of the Space sector and with representatives of Basque Trade & Investment (BTI)Strategic sector in which Euskadi wants to strengthen its weight.

During this appointment, the Lehendakari acknowledged that the new tariff measures have announced Donald Trump They are “very disturbing”But believes that the CAV “should look in the long term and have to strengthen its economic, business, scientific, training and cultural ties” with this state “Because the United States is much more than Trump and its administration”.

Before his political appointment in the American capital with democratic and republican representatives, Pradales explained that Euskadi has the determination and ambition “at this” historical moment “to continue to benefit from all opportunities,” here in the United States. “”Our vision and bet is the long termThe generation of international alliances and networks that give us value, “he emphasized.

Fourth commercial partner

He remembered that we Parts from above and turboropular parts For aviation.

That is why the close cooperation of the Basque aviation and space sector has valued with world reference institutions and companies such as the POT and various American research centers.

“We have to cultivate and strengthen ties with many agents who, certainly, do not share the protectionist measures that are being increased,” he told the representatives of the aviation sector with which he collected.

The United States occupied fourth place as a state that receives Basque export. In addition to the 5500 exporting companies in the CAV, Thousand They maintain regular commercial relationships with the American market in sectors such as energy, machinery and equipment products, automotive and biosalud.

The spacecraft American is the largest in the world. In 2023 it generated a turnover of 955 billion dollars and what 1.6 % of GDP meant. 15 % of the turnover of the Spanish space industry and 1 % of Europeans come from the CAV, the Basque government remembered in a statement.