The trade war has begun and we are waiting for the …

"French Finance": Beginning of the trade war and waiting for the United States

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Saturday, July 21st, 2018
Finance Minister Bruno Lemerre said Saturday that the United States had started a trade war with EU countries by imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports and that Washington should take steps to stop this war.

"The trade war has begun and we are waiting for the United States to take steps to get out of this war," Lemerre said at a meeting of G20 Finance Ministers in Buenos Aires, quoted by by Reuters. "

" I can not imagine negotiations for a trade agreement between the EU and the states "If the Trump administration imposes new duties on the EU countries, we can not answer that again. "
The United States of America, at the end of last March, imposed tariffs in the United States, Steel and aluminum imports of 25% and 10% were suspended until 1 May for the countries of the European Union and several other countries

On 1 May, the United States extended its negotiations with the European Union, Canada and the United States. Mexico on May 30th. The US President, Donald Trump, on more than one occasion

The European Union reacted by taking three measures: first, on June 1, with a request for the Organization World Trade Organization, and the second by imposing taxes in the United States. The importation of a number of goods from the United States to rebalance the situation in the rules of the organization and the possibility of introducing preventive measures in the market of the l & # 39; 39 steel if an additional influx of imports into the EU countries was detected.

Claude Juncker, last Wednesday, said that the machines the European Union will react the same way to US provocations on "US tariffs" on European goods, Unker told reporters: "We will continue to respond to the provocations that can be launched against us. "