Donald Trump will use tariffs again as a throwing weapon against Europe. The US president goes up the bet and threat to apply 200% tariffs To the wine, champagne and other alcoholic beverages from EU countries, if Brussels do not immediately “the 50% tax on the American whiskey.
Trump’s new tantrum arrives after the EU responds to the constant threats of the United States leader announcing tariffs worth up to 26,000 million euros to a wide range of American products.
In a publication on the social Truth Network, the tenant of the White House has accused the EU of being One of the most hostile and abusive tax and tariff authorities in the world“created with the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States.”
In this sense, he has warned that, if the EU does not immediately “immediately” the 50% tariff to the wiski from the US, a 200% tariff will soon impose “to all wines, champanes and alcoholic products from France and other countries represented by the EU.”
“This will greatly benefit the wine and champagne sector in the United States,” Trump said.
Since yesterday, the new Donald Trump administration applies 25% tariffs to imports of European steel and aluminum. Something that Brussels see “unjustified.”
The community executive estimates in some 28,000 million dollars the impact of American tariffs on steel, aluminum and European derivative products, so it responds with rates to imports from a varied range of American products that goes from food to emblematic brands such as the Bourbon Wiski or Harley-Davidon motorcycles.
With margin for the agreement: the countermeasures of Europe will not enter into force until April 1
In any case, European countermeasures will not take effect until April 1 because several procedural steps must be fulfilled, which leaves a certain space to try to find an agreement with the United States.
The first part of the tariffs prepared Brussels correspond to Those who were activated in the past and that they are suspended until March 31, by virtue of an agreement with previous North American administrations, so they will enter into force on April 1.
The second part of the package will take some more time and community services estimate that everything will be ready for application “from mid -April”.
The EU claims to be prepared if Trump continues the tariff escalation
For its part, the European Union says it is “prepared” In case Trump decides to expand tariffs against community imports, after the announced against steel and aluminum entered into force.
“Yes, we are prepared for whatever comes,” said community spokesman Olof Gill during the daily press conference of the European Commission, in which he recalled that “we have been preparing for more than a year.”
