The Basque government will defend employment and look for new markets to tackle Trump’s rates

The Basque government will have confronted Donald Trump’s rates with four action lines: the defense of the work, the financing of companies, the opening of new markets and the differentiation of the Basque product with more investments in R&D & I.

The Lehendakari, Imanol Pradales, will announce This Wednesday The concrete measures Within the framework of the group for industrial defense group, and next Monday he plans to maintain a round with all political parties, with the exception of Vox, to explain this “first package of measures”.

The spokeswoman for the Basque government, María Ubarretxena, who appeared at a press conference after the Board of Directors, explained that this Wednesday’s meeting was extended to the companies that are most affected by the rates of Trump, the companies that are the most business volume and most plants in the VS. Moreover, the most important trade unions are included in this call.

In addition, on Monday The Lehendakari, Imanol Pradales will be one Contacts with all political partiesExcept Vox.

According to Ubarretxena, the purpose of tomorrow’s meeting is “triple” on the one hand the diagnosis of the new tariff reality and monitors the affected sectors; Identify the instruments, resources and the policy that is available to support companies and improves the capacities and opportunities of the Basque industry to this new global context.

The spokeswoman recalled that Basque companies export to the United States worth 2000 million euros and that all these sales would be influenced by rates. The direct impact would be 400 million and the indirectly would reach 1200 million.