The EU returns to Trump tariffs and warns the trade war

In Brussels, Wednesday was after 06:00. Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs in Steel and Aluminum were midnight in Washington when the US trade partners affected.

It took less than 10 minutes to respond to the European Union.

“Tariffs are taxes. They are evil for business and are evil for consumers,” the President of the European Commission Ursula Von Der Leiben.

EU’s initial indicators will enter into force for US products in April 1, From jeans and motorcycles to peanut butter and bourbonAs with the first tariffs of the Trump management in 2018 and 2020.

But there will be more in the middle of April. Textile, home appliances, food and agricultural products can be included depending on the two weeks of consultation with stakeholders.

The list of items that contain meat, milk, fruits, wines and spirits, toilet seats, wood, coats, bathrooms, night dresses, shoes, chandeliers, shoes, chandeliers and sticks.

For consumers, especially for American products, higher prices for European supermarket shelves. However, enterprises and some industry, especially steel, real threat.

The head of the German Federation of the German Federation, Dirk Jandura, Dirk Jandura, Germany warned that the Germans will be forced to deeply deeper in supermarkets to pay for American products.

Orange juice, bourbon and peanut oil were the most likely products to be shot. “The margins in trade are so low that these companies do not swallow,” he said.

In total, the EU will target 26bn (£ 22 billion) of the US exports.

“We will not enter hypothetics, except for all these results,” he said.

EU Council President António Costa called the United States to Escalat, although Trump said he would withdraw at EU counterparts

“We have been abused for a long time and we will no longer abuse.”

In Austria, there was concern about escalation.

“The United States is the second most important export market for Austrian products after Germany and is the most important for Germany,” said Christoph Neumayer, head of the Austrian Industry Federation. “It is important that Europe is building together and resolutely,” he said.

Consumers would not be very difficult because of the EU official, soy and orange juice can be easily obtained from Brazil or Argentina.

Some of the United States exports were also a proposal to be the United States under the country’s supervisory countries: Louisiana or Nebraska and Kanzas soy.

The relatively large number of US exports are included in the EU via Rotterdam or Antvertin Antwerp in Belgium.

Minister of Dutch Economic Affairs Dirk Beljaarts hoping that no one has not taken advantage of the “Tariffs War”, but has the impact of the company and consumers – especially affects consumers in the United States. “

On both sides of the Atlantic, a particularly harsh area is in the beverage sector.

The spirits said that Pauline Bastidon, European, EU and US companies and US companies that produce US companies and the United States are associated with the risks facing Europe.

The US Council of Distilled Spirits, Chris Swonger, the EU’s 25% tariff is postponed compared to American whiskey, the United States has worked long to restore a solid function in the largest export market. “

To recreate the tariffs from April 1, “Deep disappointed” and Called to return to “zero-zero” tariffs.

25% of US Import Tax Prospects for Congo manufacturers in France are also a great problem.

French manufacturers have already been shot in Chinese events This cognac has hit a heavy tax.

France’s data said that the “mood”, Basten Brusaferro Bastien Brusaferro of the “mood”, “General Winegrowers”.

Only in the Charente area, thousands of workplaces, says: “Cognac is a product made for export.”

The head of the European Steel Association, Henrik Adam also had a terrible warning.

“President Trump’s policy is threatening to have the last nail in the coffin of the European steel industry,” he said.

Trump’s initial tariffs on European steel in 2018, the United States dropped to the United States and all three tons of steel, and entered the United States instead.

“These new events applied by Trump are more wider, so the effects of US tariffs are likely to be larger.”