Israeli officials reacted with shock to a 17% tariff on products exported to the U.S., having signed a directive a day earlier scrapping all remaining tariffs on American imports. Israel's exports of goods to the U.

Donald Trump's latest tariff announcement could impact Israel's exports of machinery and medical equipment, an Israeli finance ministry official said on Thursday, as the government sought to minimise the impact of the threatened U.

The Israeli government, a day before Donald Trump's Wednesday decision, canceled all tariffs on imports from the United States. Despite this, the US President imposed 17% retaliatory tariffs. "The Israeli industry is deeply worried by President Trump’s decision to impose new tariffs on Israel,