Tariffe: la risposta europea agli Stati Uniti potrebbe essere “estremamente aggressiva”, avverte il ministro francese del commercio estero
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/usa/droits-de-douane/direct-droits-de-douane-en-inde-la-bourse-chute-de-plus-de-3-a-l-ouverture-apres-l-offensive-douaniere-americaine_7175439.html
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>Laurent Saint-Martin mentioned the ‘anti-coercion instrument’, which would freeze access to European public contracts or block investment.
>What will be Europe’s response to the trade war launched by Donald Trump? We must not exclude any option, on [American] goods and services, and open up the European toolbox, which is very comprehensive and can also be extremely aggressive in return’, warned the French Minister for Foreign Trade ahead of a meeting with his EU counterparts in Luxembourg on Monday 7 April. Laurent Saint-Martin mentioned the ‘anti-coercion instrument’, which could freeze access to European public contracts or block investments.
Good, honestly i hope EU respond hard again, and just tarif the hell back of USA! Yes its destroying the economy short sighted, but we have to protect European companies!
Press conference from this meeting is about to be live now:
[https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/ebs/live/1](https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/ebs/live/1)
Could… someday… maybe…
China has hit back hard and cut off critical minerals, put 34% tartiffs on US goods, and using very strong language “If war is what the US wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we’re ready to fight till the end,” said China’s US embassy. Not to mention agreeing to greater economic collaboration with South Korea and Japan.
[China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech](https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/china-just-turned-off-u-s-supplies-of-minerals-critical-for-defense-cleantech/)
If Europe also goes hard this is going to put a lot of pressure on the US.
Do not talk, act
Nobody cares about woulda, coulda, shoulda. Do. The time for talking, announcements, and long debates is long gone.
Just take decisive and collective action.
Instead of finger pointing and finger wagging, put those fingers together and make a fist.
Bla bla bla bla bla bla could they hurry a little ffs.
There has to be a smarter and more efficient way to counter tariffs instead of just slapping tariffs ourselves, which would only make things more expensive for European customers.
Good. Only dead fish go with the stream. Having the US benefit from this spat would be catastrophic for our own economy. Retaliatory tariffs need to happen like yesterday. Volvo is already talking of producing another brand in the US to circumvent the tariffs. Retaliatory ones are necessary to keep them in place. We got this. Long live Europe
Fucking hell, makes Starmer look like the hardliner lol
Yea but will countries like Italy and Spain follow suit. Their economies aren’t particularly strong at all and they definitely don’t want this to escalate.
“Could be”. I wish media wrote less about the endless hypotheticals and maybes and more about what is actually happening, particularly on matters discussed by EU politicians. Would make them look less stereotypically indecisive
Europes response has been piss poor. A desire to negotiate zero tariffs? For real?
Have you seen what they’ve said about Vietnam who immediately folded.
There is one thing we should be careful about. Retaliation, while it seems necessary, shouldn’t lower the cost of starting a war to invade Greenland. If it is too steep, it will be easier for the US to justify going all out, because it will have less to lose. We should keep in mind that we need the realistic threat of a next step.
I’m not sure what to think about it. If sure feels weak, even like surrender.
On the other hand it might be a smart way of giving Trump a “win” to get him off our backs. Because as I understand it tariffs were never actually the issue, trade deficits were. And that wouldn’t change. Neither would European health regulations or worker protections. So he isn’t getting much of anything.
But either way the EU doesn’t seem to care about prestige and optics whatsoever. Maybe that’s wisdom, maybe it will be the death of us.
I like to hear that!🇪🇺🇪🇺
Just fucking do it then! Jesus christ…
Fucking hope so. They need to get punched in the face so goddamn hard.
If they are weak and play softball I’m going to have a fucking aneurysm
Europe needs to stand strong and not fold to the USA and Trump. He now dropped his economic MOAB and does not have much more ammunition left whereas Europe has countless possibilities to make their wobbling economy crash – target their military imports into the EU/NATO, make them pull out their military bases of Europe, shut down Big Tech in the Union, etc. They have a lot to lose and Europe a lot to gain.
If the average US consumer does not have money anymore to overconsume this market is getting uninteresting anyways.
American people are gonna suffer the most from inflation and recession resulting from these tariff wars
Enough talk. Act.
I wish to remember everybody that the US tariffs aren’t online yet.
And given the instability of Trump’s decisions, it’s necessary to plan for a variety of scenarios including the possibility he might drop some of them, as unlikely is that.
Plus, putting placing tariffs hurts EU companies importing stuff as well: developing strategic tariffs to maximise the hurt on the US companies while minimizing the hurt on EU companies is not something done overnight.
Especially if in the meantime they manage to prepare deals with other countries to further reduce the damages to EU economy.
Trade is of much more importance to the affluent countries of Europe than it is to the USA.
Great to talk tough but it could collapse the economies off Germany, the Netherlands, etc. It also puts these countries at the economic mercy of China. The German car industry might collapse if China decides to put reciprocal tariffs on EU vehicles.
Yeah… Turns out we would rather talk instead and won’t actually fight back…