President Donald Trump signed decrees and spoke with journalists on Tuesday at his residence in Florida. He said he could not allow Venezuela exporting oil and products derived through companies such as Chevron.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said Tuesday that he might not allow Venezuela exporting oil and products derived through companies such as Chevron.
Trump said “Maybe not” when journalists asked him if he will allow Venezuela exporting oil products.
“We are studying that now,” he added.
During a session at his Mar to Lake residence, in Florida, Trump also signed a decree to expand government access to vitro fertilizations and reduce the costs of this popular fertility treatment.
The order, which instructs Trump's head of domestic policy to generate a list of recommendations in 90 days that protect access to these treatments and protect people, did not address how much of the costs they will be covered.
Most states do not currently require insurers to cover the costs of in vitro treatments, which involve creating an embryo in a laboratory, but even with medical coverage, the procedure can cost thousands of dollars in medicines and medical processes.
Tariffs to cars and pharmaceutical products
Trump also said that he tries to impose tariffs on cars of “around 25 %” and others similar to semiconductors and pharmaceutical imports.
On Friday, Trump declared that cars tariffs could be decreed on April 2, one day after the members of his cabinet give him options for a series of tariffs to imported products.
Trump has been complained several times about the unfair treatment of US automotive exports in international markets.
The European Union, for example, imposes a 10 % tariff on vehicle imports, four times the US US rate. However, the United States maintains a 25 % tariff to trucks imported from other countries that are not Mexico or Canada, a very beneficial measure for US manufacturers.
Trump added to the reporters on Tuesday that tariffs on pharmaceutical products and semiconductors could begin in a “25 % or more, and will be substantially rising during the year.”
He said he would not establish a date to announce these tariffs because he wanted to offer some time to pharmacists and chips manufacturers to move their factories to the US to evade them.
Musk and Decisions related to space
On the other hand, President Trump said he will not allow billionaire Elon Musk to participate in any government -related government decision, when the president was asked about the potential conflicts of Musk's interests in the midst of his attempt to cut government expenses earrings .
“So anything that has to do with space, possibly, we will not allow Elon to participate in that,” Trump told reporters.
The White House said Monday that Musk's role in the Trump administration was President's main advisorand that I was not an employee of Doge. The White House also said that Musk had no authority to make decisions.
(With Reuters information)