Toledo.- The delegate of the Government of Spain in Castilla-La Mancha, Milagros Tolón, has met today with representatives of CECAM, the Chamber of Commerce of Toledo, UGT and Workers Commissions to analyze the situation generated by the tariffs approved by the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
The meeting was attended by the President of the Chamber of Commerce, Mari Ángeles Martínez; Mario Fernández, Secretary General of CECAM; Raquel Payo, Secretary of Institutional Policy and Occupational Health of CCOO CLM; Pedro Mota, Secretary of Agenda 2030 of UGT CLM; José Manuel Campillo, representative of the Regional Council of Chambers of Castilla-La Mancha; and Pedro Herminda, Vice-President of the Chamber of Commerce of Toledo.
Listen and Share
The objective of this meeting, stressed Milagros Tolón, “has been to listen and share the impact that the application of these tariffs will have in our region, which, as you know, will be 20% for the countries of the European Union. At the state level, the main sectors affected by this decision are the automobile, agri-food, pharmaceutical and also related to machinery and steel production, among others.”
With data from 2024, in Castilla-La Mancha the US represents 3.3% of foreign trade, being the most exported products to the US last year:
-dairy products such as cheese,
-mechanical machines and apparatus,
-footwear
-and animal and vegetable fats and oil.
14.1 billion euros
Milagros Tolón has stressed that in this meeting “I have also conveyed to the social agents that the Government of Spain has responded quickly to Trump’s measures with the Response and Commercial Relaunch Plan of the Government of Spain. It is the immediate response of the Spanish Government to mitigate the negative impacts of the trade war initiated by Trump, and to weave a shield that protects our economy.”
A plan that will mobilize, recalled the delegate of the Government, “14.1 billion euros, 7.4 billion new funding and another 6.7 billion existing instruments. As President Pedro Sánchez explained yesterday, this plan has 2 fundamental objectives:
Help and protect businesses and jobs that could be affected by the new tariffs.
Relaunching our productive capacity”
The Plan contains the mobilization of economic resources, “as I said, more than 14 billion and also measures for the protection of employment through a mechanism similar to that launched with the ERTE during the pandemic. Once again, in the face of this challenge, the Government of Spain does not profile itself and faces the challenge with determination by putting the resources of the State at the service of the social majority, companies and workers.”
Dialog and more dialog
Milagros Tolón concluded by saying that “we are going to do it with dialogue. Dialogue with our European partners, with social agents, with political groups and with the autonomous communities. And also dialogue and negotiation with the United States and with a coordinated response from the European Union, always respecting the values of solidarity and unity of the common European project. Because, as the campaign launched by the Spanish Government says: Our values are not for sale. Our products and services do.”