US President Donald Trump’s decision to suspend duties for 90 days is just a “fragile break”. Europe must therefore “mobilize all available levers to protect itself”. Declared it on Friday French President Emmanuel Macron. TASR reports this based on AFP and Reuters.
“Partial suspension of US duties for 90 days sends a signal and leaves the door open for conversations. But this pause is fragile,” wrote Macron on the social network X. “It is fragile because duties of 25 % on steel, aluminum and cars and 10 % duties for all other products are still in force. They amounts to EUR 52 billion for the European Union. It is fragile because the ninety -day pause means 90 days of uncertainty for all our businesses on both sides of the Atlantic and elsewhere, ”he added.
Macron re -confirmed that France and the European Union (EU) will be a single front in terms of negotiations aimed at reaching the agreement and removing US duties. “We have to prove to be strong. Europe must continue to work on all the necessary countermeasures,” He stated on the X Network after a surprising Trump decision. “We have the right to fight: There are jobs and the lives of our countries,” added.
Trump’s administration set out reciprocal duties of 20 %on EU imports, which the President surprisingly postponed on Wednesday (9 April). The European Commission is preparing its response, although Brussels has made it clear that it would rather avoid retaliatory measures. Macron said that the EU must be avoided by “third -country products from third countries” that could “disrupt the market balance”.
