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The trade between EU and US can be “almost impossible” when Donald Trump imposes 30 percent tariffs he threatened, the Commissioner told Bloc.
Maroš šefčičičičičičičičičičičičičičičivi’s ahead of a meeting of EU Ministers on EU on Monday arrived after US President Warned At the end of the week he will impose duties at that EU level from August 1.
“If you are talking about 30 percent or 30 percent more, there is a huge affect of trade,” says šefčovičič “almost impossible to continue marketing while using us in a transatlantic relationship.
“The transatlantic supply chains will be affected by both sides of the Atlantic. Show me a industry leader happy with this tariff policy,” he added.
Šefčovič EU Ministers at a Brussels meeting on Monday state of the US talks while Bloc considers possible retaliation measures.
He told reporters ahead of the meeting: “The feeling of our side is that we are very close to an agreement.”
But Trump was humiliated with Brussels – and some EU officials say his own negotiator – in his letter containing the Tariff threat posted by his fact Saturday Saturday.
The so-called Tariff Tanding Tariff at the beginning is set by 20 percent of April, then dropped by 10 percent to give the Presidency, before the president announced the latest threats to 30 percent threat.
Šefčovičič said he talks to commerce secretary howard lutnick on Monday afternoon at a push for a push for a push.
But diplomats are also expected to recommend him a new package of possible retaliated tariffs against the US states of the EU member. They will occupy these € 72bn in annual US imports, two diplomats said, after governments in some exceptions from an original list of 95bn.
The Commission has quit a separate plan to hit € 21bn in annual US imports – Turning on the steel imports, aluminum from the EU – until mid-eu – until mid-speaking.
Šefčovičič said imposing 30 per cent tariffs chinese means nothing to lose if the Trump has grown in higher response numbers.
“Thirty percentage or any more than 30 percent – any additional counter-reactions from the United States – it has more or less similar effects.
The more member states are reluctant to strike the US for fear of provoking Trump.
Friedrich Merz, the German Chancellor, and Giorgia Moneloni, the Italian premier, both talked with the prospects of a traded deal and warned against a trading war by the end of the weekend.
In his letter informing the president’s presidential commissions Ursula von der Leyen, Trump says that the US adds to tariffs over 30 percent to match any Retaliaatory EU.
Lars Løkke Rasmussen, the foreign minister of Denmark, holding the Rotating Presidency of the EU, said Bloc thinks of steps.
He said the EU should also consider using its strongest tools, the anti-coercion instrument (ACI), called a “Trade Bazooka”. ACI allows EU executive to impose restrictions trade Of services if it determines that a country uses tariffs in things to force policy changes.
“If you want peace, you must prepare for the war,” Rasmussen said.
But Von Der Leyen said at the end of the week before the time was using ACI.
Also said by šefčovičič that hunes Brussels consult other “like minded sales” with no names.
Trump passes 10 percent “rackcal tariffs” in most of the world, with 50 percent National Security Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum and 25 percent of vehicles and parts. So far, the UK only, Vietnam and China agree partial deals in Washington, which the last two have been locked in long tariffs.
