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    L’UE “si è preparata a imporre contromisure” dopo che Trump raddoppia le tariffe in acciaio al 50%

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    1. c-dy on

      Well, it will be interesting to see if the EU will be as decisive as China and not stop calling Trump’s raise/bluff.

    2. critiqueextension on

      The EU has expressed strong regret over the US doubling steel tariffs to 50%, and is preparing countermeasures, including tariffs on US goods, in response to the escalation. This trade tension is part of ongoing disputes following Trump’s 2025 tariff increases, which the EU and other trading partners have criticized as harmful to global trade stability.

      * [EU ‘strongly regrets’ Trump’s announcement of 50% increase in …](https://www.euronews.com/2025/05/31/trump-announces-50-increase-on-steel-and-aluminium-tariffs)
      * [EU sets out possible 95-billion-euro response to US tariffs | Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/eu-sets-out-95-bln-euro-countermeasures-us-tariffs-2025-05-08/)

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    3. Machicomon on

      LOL. Every day. Tariffs. Trump. Elon. Tesla. Vance.

      Day after day after day.

    5. Initial-Laugh1442 on

      Usa was a ‘rule of the law’ based democracy: not any longer. Why is it better than China, now? The latter is governed more competently, at the moment

    6. Inside-Till3391 on

      EU policymakers need to be more mature and stop being emotional about geopolitical issues. Kneeling is encouraging the bully to be more aggressive, which is exactly the same as school bullying.

    7. ouath on

      Was curious and checked steel production, this is insanely different from what I thought, I knew China was big on steel but they produce around 53% of all steel while the US is way lower than I thought around 4% and the EU 6.5% better than I thought.

    8. EddieRyanDC on

      But are the tariffs really 50%?

      Trump says shit because it pops into his head and feels useful to get what he wants. Do you really think that there was careful discussion in the Department of Commerce where government professionals weighed the pros and cons of various tariff levels and came up with the 50% number as the right one to achieve national goals? “50%” is not a number calculated by a spreadsheet and handed to the President as the basis for a new commerce policy. “50%” is a big round number that someone who knows nothing about international trade would pull out of his ass.

      This is a big scary number for Trump to wave around and get applause from the crowd. Customs officials are not holding steel shipments at the docks until importers pay the extra dues. This is fiction. The number is just part of a story that Donald Trump wants to tell.

    10. johnrraymond on

      Good. There is no reason the EU should just take the abuse the russian asset in the white house heaps upon them.

    11. MercantileReptile on

      Set to go into effect June 4th. But since T.A.C.O. (Trump always chickens out) applies, none of that is certain. So, maybe just another pump and dump scheme. Or a toilet tantrum.

      Or a thousand other things making it pointless to ‘report’ on things Trump may or may not do.

      Even less point in mentioning EU response to it. As it takes **a month** at the very least. For anything.

    12. riscos3 on

      Prepared to impose… just do it with immediate effect. Knowing uvd it will be from july… 

    13. diamanthaende on

      Enough talk, it’s time to act. Tit-for-tat tariffs, every single tariff needs to be answered with measures of our own, similar to what the Chinese did.

      Plus, a viable strategy to significantly reduce Europe’s dependence on US digital services, be it through taxes, non-tariff barriers or good old prohibitive measures for “national security” reasons, as the US loves to do itself.

    14. Jolly-Brain9118 on

      This administration is pushing quite hard to enter the European food market, but they don’t want to follow the regulations. I think they’re poking, trying to get some leverage, but this is really a lost war.

    18. Quazz on

      Just wait until Monday and they’ll be gone just like every week before.

    19. Mysterious_Tea on

      At this point I’d follow China’s approach and slam reciprocal tariffs on the spot up to 150%.

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