Like macroeconomics, the story can be cyclical. 2025 continues with a feeling of concern about the state of global trade, while President Donald Trump provides the risk of tariffs and concern about uncertain global growth forecasts. Trump wants to protect American production and at the same time stimulate more foreign investments in the United States. Praise goals that the world leaders all over the world increasingly promote the mantra “Buy Cuspect Local”. The first important law that was adopted by the first congress in 1789? The Tariff Act.
In 2025, nations such as Morocco, which are successful in light and medium -sized manufacturing sectors, will navigate diplomatic and turbulence that have a mix of politics, politics and business.
The government of Morocco reacted to the European Commission Recent decision Refreshments for imports of Moroccan aluminum vehicles (wheels) with a mixture of trust and measured concerns. The declaration of the European Commission from last week announcement The objects of the items 5.6% for a producer who only benefits from Moroccan subsidies to 31.4% for a manufacturer who receives both Moroccan and Chinese financial support for the belt and the street initiative of the latter practice in a WTO-guided trading system, which in the emerging regional trades such as Morokko and Handel with Morokco and China and China, and China, and China, and China, and Chinas.
The government spokesman Mustapha Baitas, said Last week that the Moroccan government examines all the possibilities to “take all measures that it considers appropriately to tackle these problems. It is necessary to find a solution to these problems.”
The deeper message from Rabat: Do not allow us to cause small problems for a relationship that corresponds to more than $ 50 billion in a two-way goods trade. A typical example: The state rail operator in Morocco announced last month that he would buy 168 trains from France, Spain and South Korea. This corresponds to 2.9 billion US dollars investment In the run-up to the FIFA World Cup in 2030, a one-month event that becomes a heart of the EU Morocco relationships.
It was only this week that the EU agricultural commissioner found that Moroccan tomatoes of excess (above the fixed tariff rate) remain within the legal limits, as long as the required customs tasks are paid for the surplus.
The commitment of Morocco with the EU and other nations continues in a spectrum of trading problems such as this, from aluminum edge problems to agricultural exports to meat imports. The ongoing dialogue in contrast to angry greatness-like-the new normality in trade relationships in the entire EU Mediterranean region.
The past decade also recorded impressive growth in the Moroccian, manufacturing business, even as the Covid pandemic led to significant global changes in pension and a redefination of the priorities of national economic development through many nations.
The Morocco’s automobile export value for the EU reached EUR 15.1 billion (16.4 billion US dollars) in 2023, an increase of 30% compared to the previous year, according to the Morocco’s foreign exchange office (FCO). Morocco made almost 500,000 vehicles in 2024, even when vehicle production in France, Italy and Belgium declined. investment Agreements China also brought the battery production of electric vehicles (EV) in addition to a South Korean partnership that brings a lithium-phosphate-iron cathode system (LFP) to Morocco. Partnerships with an EU and the USA -based aviation companies have now made Morocco the leading manufacturer of aviation equipment and spare parts in Africa.
As a bridge between Europe and Africa, the commercial goods in Morocco can also turn east. The Korea International Cooperation Agency (Koica) and the city of Rabat have just signed an agreement in which a new sustainable public transport system (environmentally friendly electric buses) introduces the growing Moroccan capital. The project is financed by Koica and complements the manufacturing partnerships between the two nations.
Since it continues to diversify its production sectors, minor trade challenges such as those of the aluminum edge represent technical problems for Moroccan and EU political decision -makers.
Morocco could very well become a “collateral” of great power triviality in renewable energies, as described in the last year by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. However, these advantages are also a result of local attributes (talent, place and culture) as well as external factors.
Rough lake come and go in global trade. And Moroccans know the Arabic proverb well – winds don’t blow as the ships want.
