Let's go! After having revised their calendar twenty, twenty-seven should finally validate, on Wednesday, April 9, the first retaliatory measures against the increase in customs duties inflicted by the United States of Donald Trump since March 12. Here they respond to the 25 % surcharge decided by Washington on European steel and aluminum imports, worth 26 billion euros per year.
Community reprisals target a wide range of American products – poultry, orange juice, rice, tobacco, soy, aluminum and steel, luxury boats, motorcycles, diamonds, make -up products, clothing … -, but they remain slightly lower than the new American customs rights.
If the rate of the levy is also 25 %, the plate of the goods concerned (22 billion euros per year) is indeed narrower. As soon as they seek to “Minimize the consequences for their savings”as the President of the Commission repeated, Ursula von der Leyen, the Europeans struggle to get along for a response up to the assault they are victims. For fear of seeing the American president carry out his threats to tax “200 %” European alcohols, France, Italy and Ireland have thus obtained that the Bourbon of Kentucky escapes the counter-offensive of Brussels.
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Source: Lemonde