EU Says It Will Refuse to Negotiate
with 'Sword of Damocles' Over Its Head
with 'Sword of Damocles' Over Its Head
By Jon Stone
French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Angela Merkel have rounded on Donald Trump
over planned steel tariffs on EU producers, telling the US president to
scrap his new policy if he wants to negotiate betters trade terms with
Europe.
The European leaders reiterated their common position that they would
be happy to address Mr Trump’s complaints about the “unfair” way US
businesses are treated by the EU – but only if European steel producers
are permanently exempted from the new tariffs.
In March, Mr Trump slapped 25 per cent tariffs on steel imports and
10 per cent tariffs on foreign aluminium, but gave the 28 EU countries a
temporary exemption until the end of May.
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Source: The Independent
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