The European Union's response will be harsh if US President Donald Trump border customs on goods imported from EU member states. As reported by Armenpress, this was reported by Bloomberg, citing one of the European Commission members.
"The EU will react to any commercial partner, which will definitely discriminate customs duties on the goods imported from the EU," the representative of the European Commission told the agency.
According to him, the alliance of 27 member states does not know about any additional customs duties on the EU. The definition of customs duties is "harmful to all parties" and expressed regret against Canada, Mexico and China. In connection with the decision of Trump to set customs duties. At the same time, Mexican President Claudia Sheenbaum has announced that its government will provide details of customs duties on goods imported from the United States on February 3. Earlier, the plan said that the plan would include tariff and non-tariffs, including 25% customs duty imported from Mexico.
In his turn, Canada announced the increase in customs duties on $ 155 billion worth of goods imported from the United States on February 4.
On February 1, Trump signed a decree on making customs duties on goods imported from Canada, China and Mexico. The document states that 25% customs duties are set for imports from Mexico and Canada (10% to Canadian energy resources). Extra customs duties are defined in the amount of 10% of goods from China. According to Trump, this was done "due to the serious threat of illegal immigrants and a serious threat of deadly drugs" that kill US citizens.
