Posted on 05/08/2025 7:13:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
BRUSSELS — The European Union published on Thursday a list of U.S. imports that it would target with retaliatory duties if no solution is found to end President Trump’s tariff war, which could include aircraft maker Boeing.
At the same time, the EU’s executive branch, the European Commission, said that it would begin legal action at the World Trade Organization over the “reciprocal tariffs” that Trump imposed on countries around the world a month ago.
“The EU remains fully committed to finding negotiated outcomes with the U.S.,” commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. “At the same time, we continue preparing for all possibilities.”
The commission manages trade deals and disputes on behalf of the 27 EU countries.
In early April, Trump imposed a 20% levy on goods from the EU as part of his tariff onslaught against global trading partners. A week later he paused them for 90 days to give countries a chance to negotiate solutions to U.S. trade concerns.
A blanket 10% tariff still applies to EU imports.
The commission drew up countermeasures to target 20.9 billion euros ($23.6 billion) of U.S. goods, roughly the equivalent of what Trump would be hitting in Europe. But it also paused them for 90 days to give negotiations a chance.
The bloc’s top trade official has shuttled between Brussels and Washington trying to find a solution, but with little to show, the commission has made public a list of American imports for possible targeting worth 95 billion euros ($107 billion).
The list is broken down into sectors and broad categories of products rather than brand names. It contains 10.5 billion euros ($11.9 billion) worth of aircraft, 10.3 billion euros ($11.6 billion) in vehicle parts and 2 billion euros ($2.3 billion) in vehicles.
Around 1.3 billion euros ($1.5 billion) in imports...
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Trump needs to tell the EU what they can go do to themselves. Damn cheap skates wants the U.S. to pay for everything. Effm.
They won’t like it if we pull out of NATO, which we should.
Maybe POTUS Trump begins to withdraw troops from Europe tomorrow!!
The EU should be dissolved. It’s not a good thing for all European countries. Only some. Many of the others get screwed.
There are sooooo many choices and options for those of us lucky enough to be born in The Greatest Nation On God’s Green Earth.
When I turned 45, I developed very significant celiac. For some, gluten-free is a fad. Not for me.
There are so many ways to enjoy every meal and snack without gluten.
China, the EU, and any other anti free trade, anti open markets creeps can go to blazes.
NO SOUP FOR YOU!
They sell more to us than we sell to them, but we have the hydrocarbons.
Stuff it.
“the European Commission, said that it would begin legal action at the World Trade Organization”
1. President Trump should just declare all U.S. tariffs as matters of national security, in which case the WTO becomes moot ...
2. President Trump should preemptively withdraw any association of the U.S. from the World Trade Organization and refuse to acknowledge that the WTO has any jurisdiction in or over the U.S. and state that the U.S. will ignore any WTO rulings as if they don’t even exist in the first place, at which point the WTO ceases to exist as anything that matters worldwide ...
Well, that’s sort of odd. So they want to go after the USA via the WTO. Did they ever bother to go through the WTO when China was screwing them over and stealing their tech? And what did China do? They ignored them as they did the USA and the WTO.
EU, FU. FAFO. TYVM
They chose poorly. It sounds like they put all of their energy into fighting the U.S. instead of negotiating like England did.
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