Trump vows to slap 25% tariffs on EU and claims bloc was ‘fashioned to screw US’ | Trump administration

Donald Trump has threatened to slap 25% tariffs on the European Union claiming the 27-country bloc was “fashioned to screw the US”.

Talking at his first cupboard assembly on Wednesday, the US president stated he would quickly launch particulars of the newest tariff menace. “We’ve got decided and we’ll be saying it very quickly. It’ll be 25%,” he stated.

The EU is the US’s third largest buying and selling companion alongside China. Trump has stated he’ll impose 25% tariffs on the US’s two largest buying and selling companions, Canada and Mexico, subsequent week.

Trump didn’t give additional particulars however talked about carmakers and stated the levies could be utilized “typically”.

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