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On Thursday, the European Union’s executive hand stated that it would launch a dispute with the World Trade Organization over the “US back” and the US duties on cars and automobiles.
The European Commission also stated that it started a public consultation on a wide US import list to potentially expose a counterman if a trade transaction is not reached in Washington. This list contains $ 95 billion ($ 107.4 billion) in a number of industrial and agricultural products. The list includes hundreds of items such as bird, grain and metals.
“This is an unambiguous EU’s opinion that these (US) tariffs brazenly violate the basic rules of the WTO,” the European Commission said.
“Thus, the EU’s goal is to confirm that internationally coordinated rules are important, and they cannot be unilaterally ignoring any WTO member, including in the US.”
The dispute will have the form of official submission to the consultation request.
At a press conference on Wednesday, European Commissioner for Trade Moros Sefkovich said the main focus of the EU was Talks on transactions To avoid President Donald Trump 20% of mutual tariffs On all US imports out of the bloc. Trump also hit 25% tariff on all imported vehiclesstrike A lot of European automakers.
However, Sefkovich added that the EU continued to “prepare for any scenario.”
In a statement on Thursday, President of the EC Ursula von der Leyen said: “The EU is still fully committed to finding negotiation results from the United States. We believe there are good proposals in favor of consumers and enterprises on both sides of the Atlantic.”
In the EU there is stop The original set of revenge measures agreed by the member states in April – the answer to the US duties of 25% on steel and aluminum – to include negotiations. As a result of the sale of the countermandes, about 21 billion euros (24.1 billion) US goods will be oriented from agricultural products to clothing, mainly with a 25%tariff rate.
UK is installed to become The first country that touched upon the trade agreement with the US amid the current tariff turbulence, and the application was scheduled for 10am on Thursday.
