Elon Musk tried to personally convince the President of the United States, Donald Trumpto withdraw the wave of customs duties who are upsetting i financial markets. They reported it to Washington Post well informed sources. Musk made explicit on social networks his opposition to the duties policy. His attempts to personally influence Trump’s choices, however, failed, reports the Washington Post.
THE duties they affect in a particularly hard way Teslatheelectric car company by Musk, who has in China important production centers and relevant market shares. In recent days the entrepreneur expressed himself in favor of a policy of “zero duties»In a Videocolization with the congress of the Alloyshared an old movie of Milton Friedman which explained the benefits of free market with the history of the production of a pencil and attacked the Councilor of the White House for Commerce, Peter Navarroarchitect of the radical turn of Washington. In particular Musk has derived the university curriculum of Navarro and wrote on X that «a PhD in Economics in Harvard It is a negative thing, not a positive thing ».
The Washington Post remember how Tesla In the 2020 He even came to report theTrump Administration for i duties. Musk, explains the American newspaper, then marched for fear of appearing aligned with China and contrary to policies “America First». Frombeginning of the year there market capitalization Of Tesla has lost beyond the 38%.