Reazioni dell’UE alla minaccia tariffaria di Trump “Non saremo ricattate” -Traduzioni nel primo post

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EU reactions to Trump’s tariff threat ‘We will not be blackmailed’

Last updated: 24/05/2025 00:48

Tariffs of 50 per cent on goods from the EU: US President Trump has caused outrage in Brussels with this threat. However, the EU wants to continue negotiations – and if necessary, use counter-tariffs.

EU Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic did not go into Donald Trump’s comments in detail. Only this much: trade between the EU and the USA must be characterised by mutual respect and not threats.

Sefcovic explained on X this evening that he had spoken to US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. The phone call had been arranged for some time. According to Sefcovic, the EU remains endeavouring to reach an agreement that works for both sides. However, the Trade Commissioner also emphasised that the EU was prepared to defend its interests.

Trump’s threat has caught the EU off guard

The US President had recommended the introduction of tariffs of 50 per cent on goods from the EU from the beginning of June and justified this with a lack of progress in the ongoing negotiations. ‘Our talks with them are going nowhere,’ Trump declared on his online service Truth Social.

This threat has caught the EU off guard. There had actually been growing hope of a rapprochement between Brussels and Washington in recent days after both sides had exchanged concrete demands for the first time. This seemed to open up the possibility of real negotiations, which are now being made more difficult again by Trump’s statement.

The Chairman of the Trade Committee in the EU Parliament, Bernd Lange, sees this as an attempt to put pressure on the EU: ‘We will not accept this. We will not be blackmailed. We will negotiate clearly and unambiguously,’ says Lange. ‘And even if tariffs were to be imposed now and if negotiations were to fail, we would of course impose counter-tariffs. And as the European Union, we are strong enough and powerful enough to get through this.’

Tariffs had been suspended for negotiations

Trump’s threat of tariffs of 50 per cent from the beginning of June is also remarkable because both sides had actually agreed on a truce in the tariff conflict: in order to enable negotiations, higher tariffs by the USA and counter-tariffs by the EU have been suspended for 90 days. About half of this period has elapsed, so it would actually run until July.

However, the USA continues to levy a flat tariff of ten per cent on imports from the EU and elsewhere. The US surcharges on imports of steel and aluminium as well as cars and car parts from the EU also still apply.

Has anyone told Trump that the consumers pay the cost in the end?

He briefly acted like Walmart should eat the tariff cost and not the public

But what is being done then to ensure that manufacturers/corporations pay it rather than being allowed to reset prices to whatever they want now?

There is no way that moron thinks increasing Tariffs will work, this is pure market manipulation now.

He has literally said closed markets don’t work, so he knows.

This is the highest form of corruption this world may ever see.

Demand demand demand… not working…chuck a tantriff