The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said Thursday that he will not yield “at all” in the tariff war that he has unleashed with the imposition of tariff increases mainly to China and the steel and world aluminum.
“I’m not going to bend at all,” Trump said from the Oval Office with the NATO general, Mark Rutte.
The president, who said that EU had been “scammed for years,” explained that he will not turn in the tax on “aluminum, steel or cars.”
The United States began to apply 25% tariffs to steel and imported aluminum, which will especially affect Canada in both metals and Brazil, Mexico, South Korea and Vietnam in relation to steel, as well as United Arab Emirates, Russia and China in aluminum.
In addition, Trump granted a pause until April 2 to the increase in 25% tariffs to Canada and Mexico for the products covered by the TMEC free trade agreement.
“The United States cannot subsidize a country. We do not need his cars, neither his energy nor his wood, ”he said about Canada, before insisting that it should be state 51 for its economic dependence on the United States.
Asked by the European Union (EU), which he referred to as “very unpleasant”, the president regretted that they cannot sell cars there.
“We are not allowed to sell cars in Europe. It is prohibited due to its policies and also its non -monetary tariffs, ”he said.
Trump continued to denounce that from the EU they denounce their companies, such as Apple or Google, and do not buy “their agriculture” when the European purchase of the European: “With them it is like a unique sense street.”
Before that meeting, the New Yorker threatened to impose a 200% tariff on wine and the rest of the EU alcoholic beverages in retaliation by Brussels plans to tax American whiskey imports.
With EFE information.
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