佛罗里达州西棕榈滩-美国当选总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)周六威胁称，如果九个国家采取行动破坏美元，将对其征收100%的关税。
他的威胁是针对所谓的金砖四国联盟的国家，该联盟包括巴西、俄罗斯、印度、中国、南非、埃及、埃塞俄比亚、伊朗和阿联酋。
土耳其、阿塞拜疆和马来西亚已经申请成为成员，其他几个国家也表示有兴趣加入。
虽然美元是目前全球商业中使用最多的货币，并且经受住了过去对其优势的挑战，但该联盟的成员和其他发展中国家表示，他们受够了美元全球金融体系的主导地位.
美元约占全球外汇储备的58%，根据国际货币基金组织像石油这样的主要商品仍然主要使用美元进行买卖。然而，随着金砖国家在GDP中的份额不断增加，以及该联盟打算以非美元货币进行贸易——这一过程被称为去美元化——美元的主导地位受到威胁。
特朗普在一篇名为Truth Social的帖子中说:“我们要求这些国家承诺，他们既不会创造一种新的金砖国家货币，也不会支持任何其他货币来取代强大的美元，否则，他们将面临100%的关税，并应该期待告别向美好的美国经济出售。”
在10月份的金砖四国峰会上，俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京指责美国将美元“武器化”并称这是一个“大错误”
“不是我们拒绝使用美元，”普京当时表示。“但是如果他们不让我们工作，我们能怎么办?我们被迫寻找替代方案。”
俄罗斯特别推动建立一个新的支付系统，为全球银行信息网络SWIFT提供替代方案，并允许莫斯科避开西方制裁，与合作伙伴进行贸易。
特朗普表示，“金砖四国”在全球贸易中“不可能”取代美元，任何试图实现这一目标的国家“都应该向美国挥手告别”。
研究显示，美元作为主要全球储备货币的地位在近期不会受到威胁。
一;一个大西洋理事会模式这评估了美元作为主要全球储备货币的地位，表明美元“在近期和中期是安全的”，并将继续主导其他货币。
特朗普最新的关税威胁是在他威胁要对从墨西哥和加拿大进口的所有商品征收25%的关税，并对来自中国的商品征收10%的关税后发出的，以此迫使这些国家采取更多措施阻止非法移民和毒品流入美国。
此后，他与墨西哥总统克劳迪娅·申鲍姆通了电话，后者周四表示，她有信心与美国的关税战是可以避免的。加拿大总理贾斯廷·特鲁多在与特朗普会面后，他于周六回国，没有保证当选总统会放弃对加拿大征收关税的威胁。
Trump threatens 100% tariff on the BRIC bloc of nations if they act to undermine US dollar
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. --President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday threatened 100% tariffs against a bloc of nine nations if they act to undermine the U.S. dollar.
His threat was directed at countries in the so-called BRIC alliance, which consists of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.
Turkey, Azerbaijan and Malaysia have applied to become members and several other countries have expressed interest in joining.
While the U.S. dollar is by far the most-used currency in global business and has survived past challenges to its preeminence, members of the alliance and other developing nations say they are fed up with America’sdominance of the global financial system.
The dollar represents roughly 58% of the world’s foreign exchange reserves,according to the IMFand major commodities like oil are still primarily bought and sold using dollars. The dollar's dominance is threatened, however, with BRICS' growing share of GDP and the alliance's intent to trade in non-dollar currencies — a process known as de-dollarization.
Trump, in a Truth Social post, said: “We require a commitment from these Countries that they will neither create a new BRICS Currency, nor back any other Currency to replace the mighty U.S. Dollar or, they will face 100% Tariffs, and should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. Economy."
At a summit of BRIC nations in October,Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. of “weaponizing” the dollarand described it as a “big mistake.”
“It’s not us who refuse to use the dollar,” Putin said at the time. “But if they don’t let us work, what can we do? We are forced to search for alternatives.”
Russia has specifically pushed for the creation of a new payment system that would offer an alternative to the global bank messaging network, SWIFT, and allow Moscow to dodge Western sanctions and trade with partners.
Trump said there is "no chance" BRIC will replace the U.S. dollar in global trade and any country that tries to make that happen "should wave goodbye to America.”
Research shows that the U.S. dollar's role as the primary global reserve currency is not threatened in the near future.
AnAtlantic Council modelthat assesses the dollar’s place as the primary global reserve currency states the dollar is “secure in the near and medium term” and continues to dominate other currencies.
Trump's latest tariff threat comes after he threatened to slap 25% tariffs on everything imported from Mexico and Canada, and an additional 10% tax on goods from China, as a way to force the countries to do more to halt the flow of illegal immigration and drugs into the U.S.
He has since held a call with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who said Thursday she is confident thata tariff war with the United Statescan be averted.Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeaureturned home Saturday after meeting Trump, without assurances the president-elect will back away from threatened tariffs on Canada.
