SCOOP: Newsom to ask world leaders to exempt California exports from retaliatory tariffs

EXCLUSIVE: California Gov. Gavin Newsom volition denote plans Friday day directing the authorities to prosecute "strategic" relationships with countries announcing retaliatory tariffs against the U.S., urging them to exclude California-made products from those taxes, Fox News Digital has learned.

Sources successful Newsom's administration told Fox News Digital the announcement is simply a nonstop effect to President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariff plan, which sets retired a baseline work of 10% connected each imports to the U.S. and immoderate higher percentages for different apical traders. 

The Newsom medication is disquieted that California's almond industry, a large cultivation exporter, volition suffer billions of dollars arsenic nations similar China, India and the European Union determination to enforce retaliatory tariffs.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, is considered to beryllium weighing a tally to regenerate term-limited President Donald Trump successful the White House successful 2028. (Fox News)

Almonds, California's astir invaluable nutrient export, relationship for astir 20% of the state's $23.6 cardinal successful cultivation income overseas and 2.5% of its full exports, according to the California Department of Food & Agriculture. The authorities produces 80% of the world's proviso and exports the bulk of its almond crop. Other apical cultivation exports see dairy products, pistachios, vino and walnuts.

California boasts of being the fifth-largest economy successful the world, a captious motor for overmuch of U.S. economical growth, with a gross home merchandise of $3.9 trillion — 50% larger than Texas, the nation's second-largest state. The Golden State is the largest importer and second-largest exporter among U.S. states, with much than $675 cardinal successful two-way commercialized supporting millions of jobs, authorities officials said.

Trade with Mexico, Canada and China are besides cardinal partners for California, arsenic astir fractional of the state's imports travel from these countries, totaling $203 cardinal of the much than $491 cardinal successful goods imported by California past year. 

A Newsom authoritative said the caller Trump tariffs volition besides impact entree to captious supplies, similar operation materials, needed to rebuild aft the Los Angeles wildfires. The U.S. presently imposes a work of implicit 14% connected Canadian lumber, with the complaint perchance rising to astir 27% this year.

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President Donald Trump holds a "Foreign Trade Barriers" papers arsenic helium delivers remarks connected tariffs successful the Rose Garden astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., connected April 2, 2025. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)

State officials besides said the retaliatory tariffs volition origin "major disruptions" to cross-border proviso chains successful the California-Baja region, arguing that if constituent goods are taxed each clip they transverse the border, the last terms of the finished merchandise volition summation and beryllium passed onto Californians.

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"The markets are going to boom. The stock is going to boom, the state is going to boom, and the remainder of the satellite wants to spot is determination immoderate mode they tin marque a deal," Trump said Thursday leaving the White House.

"This is 1 of the astir important days, successful my opinion, successful American history. It's our declaration of economical independence. For years, hardworking American citizens were forced to beryllium connected the sidelines arsenic different nations got affluent and powerful, overmuch of it astatine our expense," Trump said. "But present it's our crook to prosper, and successful truthful doing, usage trillions and trillions of dollars to trim our taxes and wage down our nationalist debt, and it'll each hap precise quickly."