Gineva (AP) – The Swiss President says that Switzerland is among the 15 countries with which the United States plans to carry out “privileged” negotiations to help reach an agreement as a result of placing US tariffs on the doses of the global markets of the countries.
Karin Keller-Sutter, in an interview with the SRF station published on Friday, said he was “satisfied” with the conversations in Washington this week that week an international monetary background conference and his individual meeting with the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. Keller-Sutter also serves as a Minister of Finance of Switzerland.
“The United States has defined a group of 15 countries with which it is to find … A quick solution in this tariff question. Switzerland is part of this group of these 15 countries,” journalists told journalists on Thursday night in Washington.
It was not clear immediately what another 14 countries were included, but she told SRF that “the United States expects to carry out something privileged, negotiations and findings of findings” with that group.
Before the Trump administration stopped some of its strictest rates plans, the products imported from Switzerland had a leg to face 31% tariffs, more than 20% of tariffs in goods of the European Union. Switzerland is not a member of the block of 27 countries.
According to the figures published by the Swiss Embassy in Washington, the United States has been the most important assets export market of Switzerland throughout the world since 2021, while Switzerland is the fourth most important market for US services. The bilateral commercial volume in goods and services between Switzerland and the United States reached a total of $ 185.9 billion in 2023, says the embassy on its website.
Keller-Sutter said that a memorandum of understanding was elaborated after which negotiations can begin. A document would also establish the most important issues, and “we have also indicated a specific contact person. This is not easy in the administration of the United States,” he said.
“The US authorities have clearly expressed their desire to find a solution with Switzerland,” Keller-Sutter told SRF. She said that no schedule had an established leg, but the two parties agreed to advance rapidly “because uncertainty is poison for the economy.”
The “day of release” rates that triumph on April 2 triggered agitation in world values markets. A week later, Trump spoke by phone with Keller-Sutter in a conversation that his office said he focused on tariffs. She emphasized the “important role of Swiss companies and investments” in the United States.
Hours later, Trump announced the U -turn that stopped the new rates steep in about 60 countries for 90 days, Fanning’s speculation, which was not confirmed in some Swiss media that his conversation with Trump could play a role in the change of course.
On Thursday, Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis, who gave a trip to Beijing, said that US tariffs have pushed countries affected to “a kind of coalition” to try to reach an agreement with the United States. And on Monday, the Swiss giant Pharmaceuticals Roche announced plans to invest $ 50 billion in the US. Uu. For the next five years, an un specified amount of which it has already been underway.
