Speaking The first meeting of his cabinet Trump said on Wednesday that the decision on tariffs was made and will be announced “very quickly”.
“There will be 25 percent, in general,” Trump told reporters. “And that will be on cars and all other things.”
Returning to a regular place to be treated unjustly in trade, Trump claimed that the 27-member union does not accept us cars and agricultural products while it takes over “all of them”.
The EU currently imposes a tariff of 10 percent on the American import of vehicles, which is four times higher than the tariff that now apply in the European import car import.
Now, however, it applies a 25 percent tariff for imported pick-up trucks.
“Look, let’s be honest, the European Union was formed to fuck the United States,” Trump said.
“That’s the purpose of that and they did a good job.”
Trump comments stated the European Commission’s rapid response, the Executive Hand of the Bloc, said that the world’s largest unique market areas “boon” is for the United States.
“The EU will react firmly and immediately against unjustified obstacles to free and fair trade, including the tariffs are used to challenge legal and non-discriminatory policies,” spokesman said.
“The EU will always protect European business affairs, workers and consumers from unjustified tariffs.”
Other observers in Europe offered several prominent answers to Trump claims.
“Trump hates the EU,” Gérard Araud said, former French ambassador to the United States, said at the X.
“He doesn’t know exactly what he is, but he hates him.”
Carl Bildt, Swedish Prime Minister 1991. Until 1994. years, he said Trump had a “seriously distorted” look at the history of the EU.
“It was actually appointed to prevent war in the European continent,” said Bildt to X.
The latest trading salvo trump comes due to increased tension between Washington and Brussels over the “American Plv” Americh first “access to international jobs.
At the top of the parting trafficking, Trump is concerned about its commitment to the European Security and the Future of the North Atlantic Agreement (NATO) with its reach of Russian President Vladimir and the verbal attack on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
With Trump in the way of bringing a fast end to Ukraine, officials in Kiev and Brussels fear that the US president is prone to the stake in Peace Very favors RussiaIncluding a release permission to keep Moscow Ukrainian land that seized during its invasion.
On Monday, the German Chancellor in the waiting of Friedrich Merz said his country must achieve “independence” from the US because “Americans or at least this part of Americans … cares very little about the destiny of Europe.”
Merz, who wants to form a coalition government after the Sunday (CDU / CSU) allocated the highest places in the parliamentary elections on Sunday, “or will not exist in his current form,” or whether we must establish an independent European defense much faster. ”
In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, USA State Secretary Marco Rubio He tried to be worried about concern over NATO’s future, while calling out European governments to invest more in their defense.
“My reaction is NATO. The only thing that intersects NATO is the fact that we have allies of NATOs who are barely forces as they have spent 40 years,” he was rubbing on him, “he said,” Rubio said, “Rubio said,”
“These are rich countries, especially in Western Europe,” Rubio added. “They have a lot of money. They should invest in their national security, and they are not.”
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