IMF chief urges US to ‘strike trade deals swiftly’ or risk damage to global economy

Kristalina Georgieva calls for trade policy settlement and says tariff wars have ‘spiked uncertainty off the charts’

IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva has urged the US to strike trade deals urgently, to limit the damage to the global economy from Donald Trump’s tariff policies.

Speaking at a press conference at the IMF’s spring meetings in Washington, Georgieva declined to criticise the US administration directly; but warned that what she called “major trade policy shifts” had “spiked uncertainty off the charts”.