White House official: Trump is "very serious" about the plan to impose a 20% transit fee on Hormuz

Odaily Planet Daily News According to US media Semafor, a White House official stated that Trump is "very serious" about his plan to impose a 20% transit fee on goods passing through the Strait of Hormuz, a plan he has been pushing for months. Trump has long intended to impose transit fees. In April, he questioned why his administration "didn't do it" and threatened to start charging fees in June if an agreement with Iran was not reached within 60 days. However, Trump does not always put his ideas into action, and until this week, he had refused to formally announce the plan, partly due to opposition from within his inner circle. "This has always been something he wants to do, but some people have tried to persuade him to give it up,"

the White House official said. "For him, it has always been his instinctive decision, and he has just come back to it." It is still unclear how this fee system, linked to the naval blockade of the strait, would operate, or whether the US has even consulted with Gulf states about it. According to the official, the details of the plan are still being finalized. (Jin Shi)