Every trade agreement with us must be based on “respect for non-threats,” says EU Commissioner Trump Tariffs star-news.press/wp

The European Union trade boss hit a defiant tone after Donald Trump would have threatened that the tariff was on all the goods from the block, saying that any potential trade contract between Brussels and Washington must be based on “respecting non-threats.”

The US president announced after the development of frustration with the pace of progress in the Trade Agreement with the EU. New rates would take effect from 1. June.

EU trade commissioner, Maros Šefčovich, published on XU after a call with the US Representative Jamieson Greer and Trade Registrar, Howard Lutnick: “EU is fully engaged, committed to providing a contract that works for both.

“The European Commission remains ready to work in good faith. EU trade is too young and must be guided by mutual respect, not threatening. We are ready to defend our interests.”

Trump published on the social side of the truth, the social media website possessed: “The European Union, which was formed for the primary purpose of exploiting the United States on the Trade, was very difficult to resolve.”

He continued to claim that there was an annual trade deficit of $ 250 million with the EU. “Our discussions from (EU) do not go anywhere,” he said, before adding tariffs for products built or produced in the US.

Trump later told reporters: “I’m not looking for a deal – we set up a deal” before he immediately added that the European company could open it with great investment in the USA.

The EU is one of the largest American trading partners, which sends more than $ 600 billion (528 billion euros; £ 443 mil) in Robba and buying $ 370 billion, US government emissions.

The United States imposed 20% of the “reciprocal” rates on most EU goods from 2. April, but halved them a week later to enable trade conversations. He maintained 25% of the import of tax on steel, aluminum and parts of the vehicle in place and threatened similar moves on pharmaceutical products, semiconductors and other goods.

At the same press conference, Trump said that he could add 25% billing on all Apple and Samsung phones purchased by American customers. That would be at the site at the end of June, he said. His comments Launched fall in leading American stock indices And European actions, they reported the connected press.

European politicians said they were disappointed with the Visits of Further Tariffs from the United States. The French Minister of Trade Laurent Saint-Martin said that Trump’s new threats did not help negotiate anything.

“We keep the same line: de-escalation, but we are ready to answer,” he wrote on X.

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani told the Ans News Agency that the goal remained “zero-for-nero tariffs”.

Talking to journalists in The Hague, Dutch Schoof, supported the EU strategy in trade talks and said that the EU would probably see this latest announcement as part of the negotiations. “We saw before the tariffs can go upstairs and down in conversations with the US,” he said.

Micheál Martin, Irish Taoiseach, said Trump’s proposal is “extremely disappointing”. He continued, “I was always clear to my view that tariffs harms all over.”

In the statement published on the X, he said, “The proposed rates at the level were not only to push prices, it would hardly damage one of the world’s most dynamic and significant relationships, as well as hinder the wider global trade.

“We don’t need to go down this time. Negotiations are the best and only sustainable path forward.”

The head of the EU Committee, the German MEP Bernd Lange threatened to apply the counter tariffs against the United States. “We will not allow we to be pressure and objectively try to start negotiations next week,” he said in the comments reported by German World Newspaper. “If negotiations are unsuccessful, the European Union is strong enough for the implementation of the countermeasure, such as the contracarif, to compensate for economic damage.”