Trump threatens 17% tariffs on food and farm produce exports from Europe | Tariffs
Donald Trump threatened to apply 17% tariff to the export of food and farm production from Europe during negotiations in Washington this week.
Such tariffs would hit everything from Belgian chocolate to Kerrygold butter from Ireland to Kerrygold butter and all the major sellers in the United States, Italy, Spain and France to olive oil.
The sources reported at the Financial Times first confirmed that EU trade commissioner Maroš šefčovič met on Thursday that US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Trade Secretary Howard Lutnick.
EU ambassadors were informed about the threat on Friday.
The EU continues to be optimistic for a high -level political agreement, but the threat gives a flavor of the US’s ongoing aggressive negotiation position to raise a higher price from the EU, which the US has once described as “more nastier from China.
Trump said he would write to about a dozen countries to say that he would apply permanent tariffs up to 70% after July 9, and imposed on Lesoto from Japan to reach a tariff agreement for more than 60 countries.
“They will vary between 60% or 70% to 10% and 20% in value, but [the letters] He will start going out for a while tomorrow ..
EU Trade Spokesman Olof Gill said the EU’s priority on Friday evening continued to özel a negotiated solution ”.
Authorized, “during the recent negotiations this week, in principle progress has been made towards an agreement” and the negotiations will continue on matter during the weekend ”, he added.
However, if the EU moves away before Trump Wednesday, Bourbon has made it clear that it is preparing for a potential trade war with retaliation tariffs on everything from the Boeing to 747s.
On Thursday, the European Commission President Ursula von Der Luyen confirmed that the EU pursued a high level of framework agreement and said it would be very difficult to make a comprehensive agreement at the current time.
The EU also requires immediate relief from the tariffs in the key sectors as part of the frame, including the automobile industry, which has to deal with a tariff of 27.5% from 2.5% before Trump starts to trade aggression.
“It is an agreement in the principle we aim at,” he said in Denmark. “This is what England does.”
The 90 -day pause on Trump’s “Kurtuluş Tariffs” was threatened with a 50% tariff on Wednesday for more than 60 countries in addition to the EU.
