(Finance) – The Europe UnionA would be ready to discuss a reduction of duties on cars and on other goods in an attempt to avoid a commercial war with the United States, He said the best on Wednesday in Washington Union’s commercial official. Bloomberg reports it.
“Lowering the rates, even eliminating them, let’s say, for industrial products, is something ready to discuss”, Maros Sefcovic – the European Commissioner for Commerce – told the audience of the American Enterprise Institute. “Included ready to examine the rates for cars”.
After the duties on steel and aluminum and mutual ones, the In the past few hours, the American president has launched a new lunge that opens the road at 25% rates for cars, pharmaceutical products and chips.
The duties – he explained – will probably be officially announced on April 2, but it is not clear if they immediately enter into force. “We want to give companies time to come here. If they open a factory here in fact there are no rates,” he explained. The threat of new duties shakes European and Japanese car manufacturers, those that most export to the United States. Although not clear if the rates will concern all the import of vehicles, if they are decided country by country and if there are exceptions for Canada and Mexico, the concrete hypothesis freezes the big names in the sector that provide for an increase in the costs of theirs cars