European Union I pushed against President Donald Trump Another suggestion is that it will impose a 50 % import tariff on all European Union commodities, warning that trade across the Atlantic should be based on “respect, not threats.”
The reprimand came after Trump said in a publication on Friday His social reality platform That trade Negotiations with Brussels He “did not go anywhere” and suggested that he would slap a 50 % blanket duty on all European goods entering the United States starting from June 1.
It was just the most recently engraved note from Trump and came amid wider tension between the relationships between The two global powers This has witnessed months of lack of confidence and economic surprise.
The European Union, the home of approximately 450 million people, is the largest commercial bloc in the world and one of the best trade partners in Washington. She exported more than 600 billion dollars of goods to the United States last year with the import of goods at a value of about 370 billion dollars.
The last Prodistide followed by Trump April 2 “Liberation Day” Announcing a 39 % tariff for European goods, an idea that came back later before the path was changed again on Friday with a tougher position.
Stephen Moore, the former Trump economic advisor, told BBC that his former president was expressing his frustration with the European Union
He said: “I think he was now hoping that the European Union will come with a kind of deal on the table, and so far this has not come,” describing the import definitions by 50 % as a “shot in the bow.”
“The trade of the European Union and the United States is unparalleled and must be guided by mutual respect, not threats,” said European Union
While the European Union’s response indicates the willingness to negotiate, the dispute between the bloc and its ally across the Atlantic Ocean has long been deeper to his return to the combat situation that Trump took during his first administration, when he flew in the face of decades of cooperation and casts the European Union as an economic competitor.
In 2018, Trump said, “Nobody treats us much worse than the European Union,” and argued that the bloc was designed to exploit the United States that this claim repeated this year, describing the European Union as “formed to confirm the United States.”
While ideological architects in the first Trump administration, such as Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, also recorded the union’s criticism, many participated in the current internal circle of Trump.
Vice President JD Vance In February, he criticized European leaders at a security conference in Munich on issues ranging from freedom of expression to migration and defense, while dealing with the lollipop to the European view of America as a fixed cultural ally.
“The threat that I feel more anxious about Europe is the threat from the inside-Europe’s decline in some of its basic values, and common values with the United States of America,” Vans said.
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There was a lot of Trump administration’s second runner towards Europe is security financing, most notably the war in Ukraine.
While the administration’s view of the war in Ukraine has eased since then, Vans opposed again and repeatedly sending military aid to Kiev, saying In February This “I don’t really care about what happens to Ukraine in one way or another.”
And in a A reference conversation was leaked between senior administration officials in March, The vice president initially resisted the strikes in Yemen, on the pretext that he did not want to “save Europe”, while Defense Minister Beit Higseth warned that Europe was treating America like a “lollipop” by relying on it for defense.
Although the invitation of šefčovič to a “deal that works for both” reflects the unique European Union’s response to the Trump administration, Europe is preparing for several months for the possibility of a more far -fighter economic relationship with the United States as well.
Earlier this month, šefčovič said that the mass prefers negotiating, “but not at any cost”, before announcing a potential retaliatory tariff of $ 100 billion on American goods the next day.
Europe appears to be preparing for a future without America’s European Security guarantee against Russia. Germany has published this week a permanent military brigade outside its borders For the first time since the end of World War II.
A commercial war of fermentation with the bloc aimed at the position of Britain, which voted to leave the European Union in 2016, but recently signed a trade deal with Europe and Economic dealing with the United States
It seems that London has been swept away by the most severe definitions after Trump agreed last month to retain the British goods tax by 10 %, but the UK must now walk in a careful line: maintaining its “special relationship” with Washington while seeking to accurately compatible with the largest commercial partner in Brussels.
But with high tensions across the Atlantic Ocean, even allies risk the arrest of the shooting. The European Union – the heavy geopolitical weight itself – is unlikely to take a huge American tariff lying without making its own movements.
