Counter-receptor? Trump threatens to return from EU revenge

US President Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to hit his own retribution in Europe up to 25% tariffs in Washington for imports and aluminum.

As the last tariffs came into force on Wednesday, the European Union (EU) announced that imposing Staff-Tariffs for 26 billion euros (28.33 billion dollars) USA since April.

Later, Trump said on Wednesday that he would respond to the counteract, telling reporters that the White House would “make mutual tariffs, so everything they charge is paid. No one can complain about it.”

Asked if he could answer, Trump said, sitting next to Ireland Prime Minister Mikhail Martin, “of course I will answer.”

“The problem is that our country did not answer (before),” he said, repeating the previous statement that the EU was “created to take advantage of the United States”, which contradicted the declared goal of the bloc for further regional interests.

Asked whether Ireland also used Washington, Trump replied: “Of course they are” when he acted in a “massive (trading) deficit” with Ireland that he accused of low tax rates on the island.

Data in November From the Ireland Statistics Agency, CSOs shows the largest trading surplus in Ireland in 2023 in the United States, with a 31 billion euro surplus in Dublin during this period.

Trade imbalances are one of Trump’s largest grips with international trading partners. While the president introduced the tariffs for Mexico, China and Canada early as the EU, the EU has escaped targeted duties so far.

The block is firmly in its sights, however, Trump threatens 25% of the levies and attracts the EU to trade imbalances with the states.

Data of the European CommissionThe EU’s executive hand said that in 2023 the block had a surplus of EUR 155.8 billion for goods, but had a 104 billion euro deficit. Overall, the EU-WHO trading in goods and services in 2023 cost 1.6 trillion euros, According to the EU.

Machines and vehicles make up the largest piece of export to the EU in the US by a group of products, and it is chemicals, other products and medicines and pharmaceuticals.

The tension between Washington and Brussels has been boiling since Trump’s inauguration in January, when the White House leader immediately mentioned the intention to impose tariffs on the block.

“They really took advantage of us,” Trump said at the cabinet meeting on February 26, adding: “They do not accept our cars, they are, in fact, not accepting our farm products. They use every reason why not. And we accept all of them.”

Following the introduction of 25% of steel and aluminum tariffs on Wednesday, which, according to the EU, will affect up to 26 billion euro exports to the United States, the President of the European Commission Ursul von der Leyen said that the EU “should act to protect enterprises and consumers.”

“We are deeply sorry for this measure (USA). Tariffs are taxes, they are bad for business and even worse for consumers, they violate the supply networks, they bring uncertainty for the economy, jobs refer to the map, prices have grown, and no one needs it,” she said during a press conference.

Trade relations between the US and the EU “are the largest in the world,” said von der Leyen, adding that the relationship had previously brought “welfare and millions of people” and led to the creation of jobs on both sides of the Atlantic.

EU bilateral approach will be given previously suspended tariffs, which have been made by EUR 8 billion to the US, and many new countermeasures for 18 billion euros-in-course von der Leyen have previously called “strong but proportional”.

“We will always stay open for negotiations,” She added in the statement.