EU retaliates against Trump tariffs with €26bn ‘countermeasures’
by Joanna Partridge from US news | The Guardian on (#6VVXX)
Von der Leyen hits back at unjustified trade restrictions' after US metals levies come into force
The EU has announced it will impose trade countermeasures" on 26bn (22bn) worth of US goods in retaliation after Donald Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, escalating a global trade war.
The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, called the 25% US levies on global imports of the metals unjustified trade restrictions", after they came into force at 4am GMT on Wednesday.
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