The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, organizes a joint press conference with Antonio Costa at the end of the European Council in Brussels, Belgium, on March 20, 2025.
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The European Union prepares measures to counteract the recent tariff of US President Donald Trump when negotiations with the White House fail, said the President of the European Commission, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
Trump imposed 20% taxes on the block on Wednesday when he signed a comprehensive and aggressive “mutual tariff” policy. Over 180 countries and territories are subject to these new tasks, a list of Trump and The White House.
In a livestreams, the Leyen boss proposed that the block was ready to take revenge against the US steps against the US steps in the early morning hours of Thursday.
“We are ready to answer,” she said. “We are now preparing for further countermeasures to protect our interests and business when negotiations fail.”
Negotiations demanded from the Leyen and said that the EU would work towards reducing barriers and not raising it.
“It is not too late to clear the concerns through negotiations,” she said. “Let us switch from the confrontation to negotiations.”
Maros Sefcovic, the EU Commissioner for Trading and Economic Security, said on Thursday that he would speak to his American colleagues on Friday.
“Incorrect tariffs that inevitably backfire. We will act in a quiet, careful, uniform way, as we calibrate our answer and at the same time allow a reasonable time for conversations. However, we will not be idle if we cannot be able to do a fair business,” he said on the social media platform X.
“I'll talk to my US colleagues tomorrow.”
“Immense consequences”
Trump's pace from the Leyen and said it was a “big blow” for the global economy and that it would “suffer massively”.
“There seems to be no order in the fault, not a clear way to the complexity and chaos that are created when all US trading partners are hit,” said von der Leyen.
She also warned of “immense consequences” and said that the impact could be felt immediately and that consumers all over the world and companies would be negatively influenced.
“The uncertainty will trigger the rise of further protectionism.
The EU would work to support the sectors concerned, including steel, cars, pharmaceuticals and other industries, as from Leyen.
The EU chief said she agreed to Trump that some countries use the current rules in world trade unfairly, and the EU was ready to support the efforts to make the global trading system “for the realities of the global economy”.
However, she also warned that the United States reached for tariffs because its first and last tool does not repair it. “
EU countermeasures so far
From the Leyen said on Thursday that all fresh countermeasures against the United States would expand those that are already in the works by the EU.
The block had already announced retaliatory tariffs last month after the United States collected tariffs and said the measures to protect European workers and consumers. The then EU said that it would introduce entrepreneurs with US goods worth 26 billion euros ($ 28 billion).
Previously suspended tasks, which were partly partly present in Trump's first president for the first time, are to be introduced together with a number of additional tasks for other goods.
Industrial steel and aluminum, other steel and aluminum half-factory and finished products as well as their derived commercial products such as machine parts and knitting needles were set. A number of other products such as bourbon, agricultural products, leather goods, household appliances and more were also on the EU list.
After a shift, these tariffs are expected to come into force in mid -April.
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