President Donald Trump has threatened to impose 25% tariffs on imports from the European Union, saying the EU was formed to “screw the United States.”
And the European Union warned it would vigorously fight any wholesale tariff of 25% on all EU products.
The tit-for-tat dispute following the vitriolic comments of Trump aimed at an age-old ally and its main postwar economic partner further deepened the trans-Atlantic rift that was already widened by Trump’s warnings that Washington would drop security guarantees for its European allies.
Thursday’s EU pushback came after Trump told reporters “the European Union was formed in order to screw the United States. That’s the purpose
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