Business War: The European Union will introduce retaliatory duties to the US
9. Apr 2025 at 15:34 I Updated at 15:56
They will pay from April 15.
Brussels. The Member States of the European Union on Wednesday supported the proposal of the European Commission to introduce retaliatory duties in response to US duties for steel and aluminum.
Customs will begin to be selected on April 15, the Union executive announced in a statement.
The Commission added that the European Union considers US tariffs to be unfounded and harmful because they cause economic harm to the world economy.
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Customs duties to a wide range of US exports
The European Commission did not mention the amount of customs or the relevant products in its press release, but the Brussels media has previously informed that the block will impose a 25 % duty on a wide range of US exports including soybeans, corn, rice, almonds, orange juice, orange juice, cranberries, tobacco, iron, aluminum, aluminum and aluminum and carriage and carriage and car. textiles and certain clothing and different types of makeup.
However, the list is not American bourbon and whiskey, which raised Brussels to the requirements of French and Italy.
Duties on steel and aluminum announced US President Donald Trump Already in mid -March. The European Union stated in the initial response that it is preparing a counterparty against US goods, which should be worth EUR 26 billion.
Subsequently the European Commissioner for Trade Maroš Šefčovič He stated that the countermeasures would not be of such a high value because « the European Commissioners listened to Member States ». It should be about 22.1 billion euros.
Another reaction will come later
Union officials have said several times that they want to negotiate with representatives of the US administration and not to sharpen disputes.
« The European Union has made it clear that it would prefer to find a solution that would be balanced and mutually beneficial, » the commission said on Wednesday.
The approval of the proposal by the Member States means that – as soon as the internal procedures of the European Commission are completed and the implementing act – countermeasures will come into effect.
« CLO will be selected from April 15th. These countermeasures can be suspended at any time if the US agrees to a fair and balanced outcome of the negotiations, » the commission added.
The vote on the countermeasures took place on Wednesday afternoon in the European Commission Advisory Committee, which decides on duties and the representatives of the Member States. According to CTK sources, only one state voted against, according to some information it was Hungary.
As for the European Union’s response to other US duties, it will come a little later, because now only the analyzes of the influence of the so -called reciprocal duties, but also the cars imposed on cars arise.
