The US president has threatened the EU with tariffs of 200% to “all wines, champagne and alcoholic beverages.” Trump has described the EU “as some of the most hostile and abusive tariff authorities in the world.”
Trump has insisted that the EU “was created with the sole purpose of taking advantage of the US”, ignoring the origins and history of the continent. The president has justified his threat by an “evil tariff” of 50% to whiskey.
“If this tariff is not eliminated immediately, the US will soon impose a 200% rate to wine, champagne and alcoholic beverages that leave France and other EU countries. It will be great for wine and champagne businesses in the US, ”he said in his social network.
The 50% tariff to Bourbon whiskey announced that Trump denounces is one of the countermeasures imposed by the EU before the first decision of the US president of Tasar with 25% the European steel and aluminum, a measure that entered into force this Wednesday.
The European Commission has responded with “countermeasures provided” to the damage that the “unfair and unjustified” rates of the US will make the European economy. The calculation of community services is that the value of EU tariffs will amount to 26,000 million euros and the response will affect a similar market, although in two phases, with the intention of “hitting where it hurts” and, especially, in the economy of the states that vote republican.
The products that will be affected, for a value of 8,000 million euros, will go from the LEVI’s jeans to the Harley-Davidson motorcycles through the Bourbon whiskey, cosmetic, agricultural products or even vessels. It is mainly the reintroduction as of April 1 of the tariffs that the EU has already imposed to the US after Trump’s first envy in his previous mandate.
Source: www.eldiario.es
