According to his decisions, US President Donald Trump has announced customs barriers against neighboring countries Mexico and Canada and China also trade tariffs for the countries of the European Union.
“This will definitely happen for the European Union,” said Trump in the late evening (local time) near Washington. Trump did not provide any specific information about the tariffs and possibly affected product groups. There is no schedule, but “pretty soon” will happen.
“You really pulled your advantage out of us,” said Trump. The United States would have a 300 billion dollar trading deficit compared to the EU. “You don’t take cars from us, no agricultural products – they take almost nothing,” he said. Great Britain is also outside the trail, but this problem may be solved. “But the EU is really outside the trail. What you did is an abomination,” said the US President.
The EU Commission had previously declared that the EU would react to every trading partner that is unfair or arbitrarily raising tariffs to goods. “Our trade and investment relationships with the USA are the largest in the world. There is a lot at stake,” said a spokesman.