EU prefers to talk than fight with US over Trump’s tariffs

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Luxembourg: European Union ministers on Monday agreed to prioritize negotiations to remove the taxes imposed by President Donald Trump on retaliation, even as it developed the first target of the target.

Block of 27 countries faces 25 % of import tariffs on steel and aluminum and cars, and under Trump’s policy to target countries from Wednesday, almost all of the “mutual” revenue of all goods faces for all goods, which says they disrupt US imports.

Trade -monitoring ministers met in Luxembourg on Monday to discuss the European Union’s response, as well as to discuss relations with China. Many people said that the priority is to start negotiations and prevent a clear trade war.

“We need to be calm and respond in this way,” said Dutch Minister of Commerce Renyat Clever.

European Commission President Ursola Van Der Leene told a press conference in Brussels that the European Union is ready to make a “zero for zero” tariff contract for industrial goods. To date, dialogue with Washington has been difficult. European Union Trade Commissioner Marvis Saifkoich on Friday called his two -hour exchange with US counterparts “Frank” because he told them that their taxes were “harmful, blasphemous.”

It is likely that in response to Trump’s Steel and Aluminum tariff this week, in response to Trump’s steel and aluminum revenue, instead of wider mutual revenue, the block will approve Enter 28 billion US imports this week’s initially.

But even the move has proven to be harsh, Trump has threatened 200 % counter tariffs on EU alcohol drinks if the block goes ahead with 50 % duty on US bourbon.

France and Italy, liquor and spirits have expressed concern. It is expected that the US car and “mutual” revenue in the block of 27 countries will produce a large package of retaliation by the end of April.

However, in a war of goods on goods, Brussels has to target less than Washington, which is 334 billion euros ($ 366.2 billion) in the European Union, compared to 532 billion euros of EU exports.

French Minister of Commerce Laurent St. Martin said there should be no prohibition here, including the European Union’s anti -screenation device (ACI), which would allow US services to target US companies’ access to public purchase tenders in the European Union. “We can’t exclude any options for goods or services and, however, we approach it, open the box for a European device that is very comprehensive and which can be extremely aggressive,” he said.

Others, however, emphasized caution. Ireland’s Foreign Minister Simon Harris, who goes to the United States about a third of its exports, described the ACI as a “too much nuclear option” and said he believed he believed.

The majority in the European Union did not go close to it, at least for now. German Minister of Economy Robert Hebek, whose vegetables will not be part of the next governing alliance, said the European Union should realize that it was in a strong position – if it was united.

“Stock markets are already falling and the loss can be even more … America is in a position of weakness,” he said in Luxembourg. Hebek added that Trump Lieutenant Elon Musk’s hope for zero rates between Europe and the United States reflected this point. But he added about retaliation: “If every country (EU) country is coming out saying that they have any problems here with red wine and whiskey and here with pistachios, we will do nothing.”