The United States will also suffer if President Donald Trump carries out threats to impose tariffs on European countries that oppose his plans to acquire Greenland. French Economy Minister Annie Genevard said this on Sunday, TASR reports, according to an AFP report.
“He (Trump) has a lot to lose in this escalation of tariffs, as do his own farmers and industrialists,” Genevardova told Europe 1 and CNews. At the same time, she added that any takeover of autonomous Danish territory by the United States would be “unacceptable”.
Trump announced on Saturday that he would impose new tariffs on imports from eight European countries that have sent troops to Greenland. The head of the White House demands that this autonomous Danish territory become part of the US. Several European leaders condemned his threats as unacceptable.
The head of the White House stated that on all goods imported into the US from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, Britain, Holland and Finland will impose a ten percent tariff from February 1 and increase it to 25 percent from June 1, if the question of the acquisition of Greenland by the United States is not resolved.
Representatives of European countries on Saturday rejected US President Donald Trump’s threats to impose tariffs on eight European countries if the issue of the acquisition of Greenland by the United States is not resolved. According to the President of the European Council, António Costa, the European Union will strongly respond to them. French President Emmanuel Macron called them unacceptable, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called them “completely misguided.”
Trump has repeatedly said the United States needs Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, for national security reasons. He has already emphasized several times that Washington is interested in this strategically important island, which the European partners in NATO do not agree with.
