Posted on 07/25/2018 2:18:04 PM PDT by 11th_VA
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and European Union leaders announced Wednesday they have agreed to work toward "zero tariffs" and "zero subsidies" on non-automobile goods and would work to resolve U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum imports that have roiled European markets.
The president, in a hastily called Rose Garden statement with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, said the EU had agreed to buy "a lot of soybeans" and increase its imports of liquefied natural gas from the U.S. Juncker, meanwhile, said the U.S. and EU had agreed to hold off on further tariffs as part of trade talks aimed at averting a crippling trade dispute involving the lucrative automobile market.
Trump told reporters it was a "very big day for free and fair trade" and vowed to "resolve the steel and aluminum tariff issues and we will resolve retaliatory tariffs. We have some tariffs that are retaliatory and that will get resolved as part of what we're doing."
"We're starting the negotiation right now, but we know very much where it's going," Trump said after talks with European counterparts.
Juncker said he had an "intention to make a deal today and we made a deal today. We have identified a number of areas on which to work together, work towards zero tariffs on industrial goods. That was my main intention, for those to come down to zero tariffs on industrial goods."
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shhhh. Russia, Stormy, Tapes!!!
Lol !!!
Huh.
It’s almost as if we finally have a President who knows what he is doing.
The Stock Market will explode tomorrow morning.
Watch the Futures indices overnight.
If they rise, the main indexes will take off like scalded dogs...................
Does not compute Will Robinson....
Wait! I thought the EU Marxist with the bad teeth was going to set Trump straight on things! LOL
“It’s almost as if we finally have a President who knows what he is doing.”
He said ‘they’d be calling me soon’...
...and lo and behold.
Best President evah!
tariffs...a big source of DS revenues.
The EU plows back some of the tariff revenue back through the K St lobbying industry into Congress. Its how the DS sellout progresses
WHEN HE HAS COMPLETED THE TASK OF SAVING THE USA FROM DESTRUCTION, HE WILL SAVE THE REST OF THE WORLD AS WELL!
VIVA PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP!
VIVE LE PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP!
THANK GOD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP!
MUH TRADE WAR!!
——Does not compute-—
Of course it does. Nobody but you actually want tatiffs and you want tariffs for the wrong reasons.
The President was not elected to impose tariffs. The President was elected to develop jobs and grow the economy. Economic growth comes from increasing exports
What did the EU give up today exactly? They are going to by more soy and LNG at market price. That is a concession?
The first 31 Presidents were.
“Nobody but you actually want tatiffs and you want tariffs for the wrong reasons.”
I want tariffs, I love tariffs.
Especially when everyone else but us has them.
The President was not elected to impose tariffs.
Wrongo ace.
Trump tariff is keeping with campaign promises: Mike Huckabee
Tariffs are patriot candy!
I know it’s hard to grasp but by it’s like judo.
By imposing the steel and aluinum triffs on the EU, the president is causing EU tariffs to go away eliminating his need to impose tariffs.
By threatening tariffs, the president eliminated tariffs.
You always forget...... the business of America is business. America is a nation of traders and always has been
Why are automobiles the exception in this deal?
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