Imposition of 25% duties on a range of products of USAas countermeasures to President Donald Trump’s duties in steel and aluminum, the Commission proposes to the Member States, according to a document released yesterday by Reuters. Although it has a “hard” retaliation, the EU has at the same time maintaining a “zero tariff” agreement on the table for industrial products and cars.

The list, sent yesterday to European capitals to put a vote that requires a special majority, was finally excluded by Burbon at its request. FranceItaly and Ireland, due to Trump’s threats of up to 200% of EU wines and alcoholic beverages.

Among the products now “targeted” by the EU are diamonds, eggs, dental floss, sausages and poultry. The 25% duties on the products will come into force on 16 May and others involving almonds and soybeans later in the year, until December 1st.

Soy, in fact, has been mentioned by Commission executives as an example of “smart duties” he wants to impose, with whom he seeks to hit “where he hurts the US, with the few possible impact on European consumers, and this is because soybeans are exported by politics to politics, and so on, South America.

The ‘zero duties’ agreement remains on the negotiating table

At the same time, however, the Commission maintains a “zero duty” agreement on various industrial products and cars at the table of negotiations with the US, and despite the proposal – which was first submitted on February 19 – according to Commissioner Maros Sefkovic.

THE Donald Trump Not only does it not seem eager to accept it, but it is now openly asking Europe to buy more American oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG), a proposal that the Commission President hastened to accept, as she has proposed her for months.

If, however, the negotiations fail, Ursula von der Layen no longer excludes the use of even hard-core measures, such as the implementation of the Anti-Coercion Instrument for US surplus surplus services.

‘No’ to ‘harmful’ measures of escalation

By measures that would lead to “harmful” escalation, however, yesterday at the EU Commercial Ministers meeting in Luxembourg Member States such as Latvia, Hungary, Greece, and Italy, with its Prime Minister, Georgia Meloni, rushing to the next day.