Tariffs Not Good For All, Including Asean

Lavanya Venkateswaran, Senior ASEAN Economist, OCBC

04-Nov-24 07:30

Tariffs Not Good For All, Including Asean

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The U.S. is set to elect a new leader in just a couple of days but concerns are growing that additional tariffs under a second Donald Trump presidency would dampen global growth. What impact however will it has specifically on the Asean 6 countries? Lavanya Venkateswaran, Senior ASEAN Economist, OCBC gives us her perspective whilst telling us if emerging market currencies would also see weakness as a result.

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Produced by: Natalie Tan

Presented by: Wong Shou Ning, Shazana Mokhtar

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Categories: economy, markets, international

Tags: us tariffs, asean economy, donald trump,

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