The negotiated exit remains the great desire of the European Union to the commercial war initiated by the United States. But in Brussels the scenario for the failure of the conversations is already seriously raised and in any case they prepare countermeasures for the arduous negotiation that will maintain with Washington. The European Commission has put on the table a response package to the massive tariffs that President Donald Trump presented on April 2. Brussels threat, if they finally deployed, with a commercial blow that would affect imports from US goods for a value of 95,000 million. The announcement is completed with the imposition of restrictions on certain European exports to the United States and the implementation of the process that ends up a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) if it does not reach a negotiated exit.
Brussels has increased the pressure in open conversations with Washington to solve the commercial battle opened by Trump. This Thursday has launched a public consultation to impose additional tariffs on US products for about 95,000 million euros (the figure is calculated using foreign trade data of 2024). This step adds to the increase in customs rights for goods for another 20.6 billion that the EU has already approved, but suspended for 90 days in April to give the negotiations a chance.
that has imposed the United States, but they suppose a hardening in the appeasement policy maintained so far by Brussels. Because, in reality, the European Union has not yet applied any replica to Donald Trump’s decisions, which are in force: 25% tariffs on steel, aluminum, cars and car components, which punish products for about 95,000 million, and 10% of the so -called “reciprocal tariffs.”
