EU ministers rip Trump’s 30% tariffs as ‘absolutely unacceptable’

The ministers met on Monday in Brussels after Trump’s sudden announcement during the weekend of these huge definitions, which could have repercussions on governments, companies and consumers on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. The European Union is the largest business partner in America and the largest commercial bloc in the world.

“It is very clear from the discussions today, 30 % are absolutely unacceptable,” said Marus šefčovič, the European Union’s commercial representative in his talks with the United States.

He said that the committee was sharing proposals with the 27 member states “to obtain the second list of calculations of about 72 billion euros (84 billion dollars) from the United States. They will now have an opportunity to discuss it. This does not exhaust our tool box and every tool remains on the table.”

Lars Lukik Rasmussen, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, who recently assumed the presidency of the European Union, said that the ministers pledged to work together to negotiate a commercial deal with Washington or agree on counter -measures.

“The European Union is still ready to respond, and this includes strong and proportional counter measures if necessary and there was a strong feeling, in the unit room,” Rasmussen told reporters after the meeting.

The customs duties, which were also announced for Mexico, are scheduled to start on August 1, and can make everything from French cheese and Italian leather goods to German electronics and Spanish drugs more expensive in the United States, and destabilizing economies from Portugal to Norway.

Meanwhile, Brussels decided to suspend the reprisal tariffs on American goods to be accelerated on Monday in the hope of reaching a trade agreement with the Trump administration by the end of the month.

The European Union “counter -measures”, which negotiates commercial deals on behalf of the 27 member states, will be delayed until August 1. Trump’s message showed “Our August 1” to negotiate.

The negotiations will continue on Monday.

“I am sure that the negotiating solution is much better than the tension that we may feel after August 1,” he told reporters in Brussels on Monday. But he added that “we must be ready for all the results.”

“I cannot imagine walking away without real effort. After I said, the current uncertainty resulting from the unjustified customs tariffs cannot continue indefinitely, and therefore we must prepare for all the results, including, if necessary, anti -proportion procedures to restore balance in our fixed relationship.”

The messages to the European Union and Mexico come in the midst of Trump’s advanced threat to impose a tariff on countries and the right to defect in trade.

Trump imposed definitions in April on dozens of countries, before stopping them for 90 days to negotiate individual deals. With the end of the three -month allowance this week, the tariff messages began to the leaders, but again the day of implementation of what he says will be just a few other weeks.

If it moves forward with definitions, it may have repercussions for almost every aspect of the global economy. The American Chamber of Commerce in the European Union, an influential industrial group representing major American companies in Europe, said that the definitions “can generate harmful ripples in all sectors of economies in the European Union and the United States” and praised the delay of the European Union in counter -measures.

In the aftermath of the new definitions, European leaders have largely closed, called for loneliness but also a fixed hand to not create more intensity.

Only last week, Europe was optimistic with caution.

The officials told the correspondents on Friday that they did not expect a message such as the sending on Saturday and that a commercial deal was supposed to be ink in the “coming days”. For several months, the European Union soon contained strong reprisals ready if the conversations failed.

“The European Union” is multiplied by efforts to open new markets “and pointed to a new economic agreement with Indonesia as one.

Top Brass Top Bras will visit the Beijing Fora Summit later this month while flirting with other Pacific countries such as South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia, whose Prime Minister visited Brussels during the weekend to sign a new economic partnership with the European Union. It also contains huge tools in business with Mexico and a commercial bloc from South American countries known as Mercosur, and šefčovič will meet with his United Arab Emirates counterpart next week.

During their meeting with the President of Indonesia on Sunday, von der Lin said that “when the economic uncertainty in geopolitical volatility, the partners like us must come close to each other.”