Barcelona, Spain – The European Union said Monday that it is preparing “countermeasures” against the United States after the surprise of the Trump administration Steel tariffs Rathed Global Markets and complicated the continuous negotiations of broader rates between Brussels and Washington.
The president of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the president of the United States, Donald Trump, agreed last week “to accelerate the conversations” in an agreement, but that if these commercial negotiations fail “then we are also prepared to accelerate our work on the defensive side”, the spokesman of the European Commission OLOF Gill said a press conference in Brussels.
“In the event that our negotiations do not lead to a balanced result, the EU is prepared to impose countermeasures, even in response to this last increase in the rate,” Gill said.
He said the EU is finishing an “expanded list of countermeasures” that “would automatically enter into force on July 14 or before.” That is the date on which a 90 -day break, aimed at relieving negotiations, ends at rates announced by the two economic powers with each other. Approximately half of that grace period, Trump announced 50% of tariffs on steel imports.
Trump’s return to the White House has arrived With a unmatched alluvion of ratesWith threatened, added And often taken. The senior officials of the EU Executive Commission say they are pressing hard for a commercial agreement To avoid a 50% rate on imported goods.
The EU could possibly buy more liquefied natural defense articles from the USA.
The EU has offered the US a “zero for zero” result in which tariffs would be eliminated on both sides industrial goods, including cars. Trump has ruled out that, but EU officials have said he is still on the table.
He Announcement on Friday of an amazing 50% tax In steel imports they fear that the purchases of large cars to householder cars to houses could see Great price increases. But those metals are so omnipresent in the packaging that they are likely to push a blow to consumer products, from soup to nuts.
