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EU voted on Wednesday for Trump to Steel and Aluminum tariffs
US President Donald Trump’s administration has already applied for steel and aluminum imports to the European Commission’s proposals proposed by the European Commission for the 25% of the dunes voted on Wednesday.
The vote will be held from 14.30 am this afternoon at the commercial obstacles control committee, according to community executive sources. It is expected to go ahead as it will vote for a qualified majority in 14 countries. In that case of that OT, the process will increase to the appeal committee and will have a qualified reinforced majority with 16 countries representing at least 65% of the block of the block to disappoint the EU response.
This afternoon member states will vote, and there are many resistances for the value of about 21,000 million euros to the most diverse American products from agriculture, and it begins to come into effect in an inconsistent manner.
The first round allows tariffs for the widespread and diverse list of American products from mid -April, the second imposes them from the middle, third, in December, applied to almonds and American soybeans.
Finally, after negotiating with the member states, the Bourbon, Wine and Dairy on the first list of the European Commission table.
The vote is similar with the entry into tariffs known as “mutual” announced on April 2, and in which China has a complementary punishment, up to 104%, as well as 20% and 50% of more than half a hundred countries. At the same time, the European Commission prepares another measures in response to 25% tariffs to cars and Washington calls “mutual” and has been in effect from today.
“At the beginning of next week, the second stage of our response to the US tariffs, this time about cars and ‘mutual’, we will basically perform our plan with steel and aluminum,” said CE spokesperson for Olof Gill’s commerce at the company’s daily press conference.
At the same time, the President of the European Commission Ursula Van Der Leen is holding sectors meetings with representatives of the affected industries. On Monday, he met with representatives of the steel and the European automotive sectors on Tuesday with the CE Shah sector and this Wednesday received the EU’s Executive Director Malte Lohan at the head of the US Chamber of Commerce at the European Union. (EFE)
