(Finance) – The announcement of duties by the United States on cars imports worries European leaders. The Vice President of the EU Commission for the right transition, Teresa Ribercalled them “one bad news“https://www.Finance.it/detaglionOws/213_2025-03-27_TLB/.”ci sorry that the American administration is playing against the proper functioning of the global market-he added to his arrival at the EU Ambiente Council in Brussels-. We must understand in what terms exactly they want to implement them but be sure that we will reply accordingly “.
ANSA reports the words of a spokesperson for Commission EU Which clarified that “the final list of products on which to apply countermeasures” to respond to Donald Trump’s duties “will be well selected to cause maximum impact on the United States and minimize the impact on the EU economy”.
“We have to solve everything with diplomacy. I have great consideration of the European Commissioner Sefcovic. He is a person of common sense, he knows how to treat and protect the interests of European and Italian companies. The war of duties is not convenient for anyone,” said Foreign Minister and Vice -premier Minister Antonio Tajani Speaking to Agorà on Raitre. Same line followed by the British government: the gate of the chessboard, Rachel Reeveshe excluded a response from London to the Washington initiative, claiming that he does not want to “intensify” commercial wars. The more hard response to Berlin with the Minister of Economy Robert Habeck who declared that the EU must “respond firmly”.
Meanwhile, the US President Donald Trump He threatened the European Union and Canada to impose further customs duties if he deems that they are coordinating their actions at the expense of the United States, in response to war commercial started by Washington. “If the European Union collaborates with the Canada To economically damage the United States, large -scale duties will be imposed, much higher than those currently expected, to protect the best friend that both these countries have ever had, “Trump wrote on the social network Truth Social.