The US president, Donald Trumpsaid Wednesday that there will be a response on his part after the retaliation scheduled by the European Union to the US tariffs of 25 % to steel and aluminum.
“Of course I will answer”he said when he received in the White House the Irish prime minister, Micheál Martinthe same day that the EU promoted “rapid and proportionate” countermeasures “to US imports worth up to 26,000 million euros.
The commercial war between the US and the EU
The community block response will arrive in two phases while still looking for a negotiated solution with Washington.
First of all, It will let the suspension it maintained on the countermeasures that it already approved in 2018 and 2020 For the initial batch of tariffs that Trump’s first administration (2017-2021) imposed on European steel and aluminum imports.
Secondly, the commission proposes a New countermedidas package to match the economic scope of American tariffs on European imports, which figure at 28,000 million euros.
The American president claimed that The EU has tried “very bad” for a long time to her country and now is Washington’s turn.
“If they charge us 25 % or 20 %, 2 % or 200 %, that’s what we charge them. I don’t know why people get angry about that, because there is nothing more fair than that, “said the Republican leader, who since his return to power on January 20 has promoted a tariff policy as a measure of pressure in their negotiations.
Trump considered that the United States is doing well at the moment because he won the elections last November and admitted that Not all planned tariffs are reciprocal.
“There is Some cases in which they go a little beyond reciprocity because we have suffered abuses for a long time as a country. He has really abused us for a long time and will never be abused, “said the Republican leader.
The United States began applying this Wednesday 25 % tariffs on Imported steel and aluminum, which will especially affect Canada in both metals and Brazil, Mexico, South Korea and Vietnam Regarding steel, as well as United Arab Emirates, Russia and China in aluminum.
