ITC Press conference: US tariffs impact on developing countries - 11 April 2025
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ITC Press conference: US tariffs impact on developing countries - 11 April 2025

Global trade could shrink by three per cent as a result of the United States’ new tariff measures which in the longer term could reshape and boost as-yet untapped regional commercial links, a top UN economist said on Friday.

STORY: Tariff uncertainty and potential - ITC

TRT: 03’11”

SOURCE: UNTV CH

RESTRICTIONS: NONE

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

ASPECT RATIO: 16:9

DATELINE: 11 APRIL 2025 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

Speakers:

  • Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Executive Director, International Trade Centre, ITC

SHOTLIST

  1. Exterior medium shot: Palais des Nations, Flag Alley
  2. Wide, Press room podium speakers, photographer.
  3. SOUNDBITE (English) – Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Executive Director, ITC: “You would have seen that the US on Wednesday announced a 90-day pause on the so-called reciprocal tariffs on imports from most countries, bringing down rates to 10 per cent while raising tariffs on imports from China to 145 per cent. China, in the meantime, has raised tariffs on imported US goods to 84 per cent.”
  4. Medium, podium speakers.
  5. SOUNDBITE (English) – Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Executive Director, ITC: “This wouldn't be the first time that there have been tremors in the world economic system. We've seen it over the last 50 years in different dispensations. This one is probably a little more harsh, a little more tremulous.”
  6. Wide, podium speakers, Press room, TV camera, control booths, TV screens.
  7. SOUNDBITE (English) – Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Executive Director, ITC: “So there will be shifting, I think, in supply chains, there will be a reassessment of global, alliances. There will be geopolitical shifts and economic as well.”
  8. Wide, podium speakers, Press room.
  9. SOUNDBITE (English) – Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Executive Director, ITC: “Countries like Mexico, China and Thailand, but also countries in southern Africa are among the most affected, alongside the United States itself.”
  10. Wide, Press room, journalists, participants.
  11. SOUNDBITE (English) – Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Executive Director, ITC: “Global trade could shrink by three per cent, with significant long-term shifts in trade patterns and economic integration. For example, exports from Mexico, which have been highly impacted, are shifting from markets such as the US, China, Europe and even other Latin American countries, with modest gains instead in Canada and Brazil and to a lesser extent, India.”
  12. Wide, Press room, journalists, TV screens.
  13. SOUNDBITE (English) – Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Executive Director, ITC: “Similarly, Vietnamese exports are redirecting away from the US, Mexico and China, while increasing substantially towards minor markets the EU, Korea and others.”
  14. Wide, journalists, photographer, TV screens.
  15. SOUNDBITE (English) – Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Executive Director, ITC: “Least Developed Countries including Lesotho, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Madagascar and Myanmar are most exposed to instabilities in the global trading system and least equipped to pivot as needed.”
  16. Medium-wide, Press room.
  17. SOUNDBITE (English) – Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Executive Director, ITC: “China and the US constitute about three per cent to four per cent of world trade. So therefore, if you look at it in, in big numbers, there's 96 per cent out there that's still trading and that will trade.”
  18. Medium, photographer.
  19. SOUNDBITE (English) – Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Executive Director, ITC: “The indeterminate extension of 90 days on and on does not necessarily lend itself to stability. So, irrespective of whether there is an extension on and on, the fact that there is no stability, there's no predictability will affect trade and firms and decisions that are being made in real time.”
  20. Medium-wide, Press room.
  21. Wide, podium speakers, photographer, journalists.
  22. Wide, podium speakers, photographer.
  23. Wide, TV cameras, control booths.


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