The European Union postponed its decision to impose tariffs on US exports leading up to mid-April, reassessing their strategy and allowing additional time to determine which products will be affected.
Earlier this year, the European Commission I agree The company plans to expand this to 18 billion euros by April 13th, in order to revive tariffs that will affect American goods worth up to 4.5 billion euros (approximately $4.9 billion) from 2018. (Related: Eurocrats launches retaliatory tariffs on billions of US goods)
The EU’s decision to enact tariffs on the US served as retaliation against President Donald Trump after him. I was imposed 25% tariff on steel and aluminum imports from all US trading partners. The first set of tariffs the EU planned to impose included a 50% tariff on American bourbon.
Destruction: The EU has just announced $28 billion retaliatory tariffs on American products, matching President Trump’s 25% tariffs with steel and aluminum.
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Canada also follows EU initiative in imposing retaliation fees on the US by placing a 25% mutual tariff on steel products. Raise Displays taxes, monitors, sports goods, and cast iron products for items such as tools, computers, and servers.
Trump has put a 200% rebuttal on European alcohol, Doubled Existing 25% tariffs on Canadian metals. (Related: “Trump won’t mercy”: Economist Steve Moore warns countries making “big mistakes” by fighting the president with tariffs)
While many foreign leaders were celebrating the continued tariff war against the United States, others remained uncertain about the possible negative implications.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said, “It is inevitably quite a bit of dealing with tariffs that involve more tariffs.”
Shortly after the announcement of retaliatory tariffs in the US, the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said, “I deeply regret this measure. Tariffs are taxes, and they are bad for business, and even worse for consumers.”
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Additionally, European Trade Commissioner Marcos Sevkovic told the European Parliament. “We are currently considering adjusting the timing of two sets of EU, so we can consult with member states on both lists at the same time.
Ireland’s Taojeech Michael Martin said pushing back tariffs would give him time to “respond wisely and strategically.”
