Oil: Tariffs weigh on oil – ING
|Oil prices are under pressure this morning, following other risk assets lower, after the Trump administration unveiled a base tariff of 10% on all imports from all trading partners. WTI was down more than 3% at one stage in the early morning session and trading below US$70/bbl, ING's FX analyst Chris Turner notes.
Scale of some of Trump’s tariffs to raise global demand concerns
"President Trump’s latest levies will come into effect on 5 April. An additional tariff will be implemented on some trading partners, effective 9 April. For example, the reciprocal tariff on China is 34%, while the EU faces 20%. Meanwhile, Canada and Mexico are exempt from these latest tariffs. Oil and natural gas also appear to be exempt. The scale of some of Trump’s tariffs will raise global demand concerns. There’s also increased uncertainty, with markets waiting to see how trading partners retaliate."
"Away from tariffs, OPEC+ is holding a call today to discuss the need for members to stick to production targets. OPEC+ is set to bring an additional 138k b/d of supply back to the market this month, part of plans to start gradually unwinding 2.2m b/d of supply cuts. We may also get clarity on whether the group will continue to unwind supply cuts next month. Yet even as OPEC+ brings supply back to the market, some members need to make compensation cuts for previous overproduction. This should more than offset the planned supply increases."
"The Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) weekly inventory report was fairly bearish, with US crude oil inventories increasing by 6.17m barrels over the last week. Cushing crude oil inventories increased by 2.37m barrels. The large build was driven by a 728k b/d week-on-week drop in crude exports. Crude oil imports increased by 271k b/d WoW. Furthermore, refinery utilisation fell by 1pp to 86%. For refined products, gasoline stocks fell by 1.55m barrels, while distillate stocks increased by 264k barrels."
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