Trump asking EU to slap 100% tariffs on India and China raises eyebrows
Key. President Donald Trump and the European Commission President Ursula von Der Leyen, on July 27, 2025 Turnberry, Trump Turnberry Golf Club in Scotland, announced a US-EU trade agreement after a meeting.
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US President Donald reported that he wanted to slap up to 100% tariffs in China and India for Russian oil purchases from the European Union, raised his eyebrows on both sides of the Atlantic, and was not likely to meet the demand of the White House.
Trump made a proposal – first Financial times And when he was called to a meeting with his senior US and EU officials in Washington on Tuesday, he was confirmed by two sources who knew the issue. According to the FT’s report, the US is preparing to “reflect” tariffs imposed by Europe on two countries, he added. The White House has not yet responded to CNBC’s comments.
“A European Commission spokesman who was asked to comment on Trump’s proposal said on Wednesday that” the EU, India and China, including all relevant global partners, participated in the context of sanction sanctions. This engagement will continue. “
The Commission drew attention to the preparation of the 19th measures to Moscow, and said that “adding new sanctions that allow us to aim to survive in third countries” and that Brussels is a “very important partner” in Brussels’ efforts to press the Russian war economy.
Timing
It was seen as another way of punishing its trade with India and China, Moscow, Moscow, and pressure on Russia to end the war in Ukraine.
Nevertheless, European officials look carefully against alienation of China and India, and the timing of Trump’s demand raised Washington’s eyebrows A trade agreement with the new Delhi negotiates.
File Photo: US President Donald Trump comes together with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House on 13 February 2025, Washington, DC.
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The US brought India a 50% tariff, including a 25% punishment for Russian oil purchases. India, the US and the EU’s trade with Russia, while calling the tariffs “unfair, unjust and unreasonable,” he said.
The founder of the Eurasia Group, Ian Bremmer, said in a statement on Wednesday that the White House’s last demand for the EU was to be difficult to be square with Trump’s efforts to enter a trade agreement with Ukraine and China (Bremmer, Transatlantic Collective Safety and Sorcestors. “
“It is more similar to an attempt to change responsibility for a stronger reaction to Europe, and while avoiding a direct stroke in the US-China relations, the American sanctions on the front of the front of the political cover is formed.”
‘Europe should say no’
Analysts say the EU is likely to accept. The block is not by adopting Trump’s strategy of contentious tariffs and burning its own bridges with India and China – despite an economic competition with Asian superpowers – the EU also has its own complex trade relationship with Russia.
“They know that Europeans could not relieve themselves for more than 3.5 years of war for more than 3.5 years, and I’m sure they won’t cut themselves from the best import supplier.” He said.
US President Donald Trump waved with Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 15, 2025 after a joint news conference in Alaska, Anchorage, after a joint news conference.
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Other analysts argued that Europe has avoided implementing tariffs as part of Trump, unlike Trump, and that the block should not be drawn to trade wars.
“Nobody believes that tariffs are an effective trade policy tool in Europe in Europe, Bill Blain, the capital of the London -based wind shift capital … Europe will prefer diplomacy to address problems rather than direct trade war.” He said. Morning Oat Porridge Bulletin Wednesday.
“The answer of Europe should be ‘no’. Trump kicked Hornets Nest – let him deal with the results.
Russia connection
The EU has a complex trade relationship with Russia. This will prevent the punishment of other nations to do business with Moscow, and the EU is doing this – at a much lower level than the beginning of the Ukrainian war in 2022.
Bilateral trade with the EU neighbor was 67.5 billion euros ($ 78.1 billion) in 2024. European Commission DataWith the import of the EU, it was worth 35.9 billion euros and fuel and mining products were dominant. EU exports to Russia was 31.5 billion euros in 2024.
The EU struggled to completely cut off the imports of Russian gas and LNG (liquefied natural gas). Russia’s EU import share fell from 40% to 11.6% in 2021 in 2021, while Moscow constitutes less than 19% of total EU pipeline gas and LNG imports in 2024 The commission Data notes.
The United States encouraged us to move to LNG for its European allies.
Trump, as part of the EU’s framework trade with the United States – 15% imposed on Bloc’s exports to states – said that the US LNG, oil and nuclear energy products, with an expected purchase of $ 750 billion in the next three years, promised to buy.
US Interior Minister Doug Burgum CNBC said on Wednesday that the Trump administration wants to increase the market share of the US energy sector in Europe.
“[Exporting] LNG would be one of the easiest things, [you can] Put it on a ship, send it here. Change Russian gas, take market shares to zero in Europe, and increase the US market share. This is great for America, great for our allies, and we stop financing Russia’s side of the war. “
