Merkel’s Foreign Minister Ridicules Trump’s Concerns About German Car Threat
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Chancellor Angela Merkel’s top envoy pilloried the Trump administration for considering tariffs on auto imports to protect national security, saying German cars “make American roads safer.”
News that President Donald Trump was investigating tariffs on car and truck imports -- a move that would hit German manufacturers the hardest -- reached Foreign Minister Heiko Maas just before his first meeting with new U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington last week.