Car Tariffs? Europe Is Ready to Retaliate as Trade Dispute Grows
- Trump threatens new car tariff after Europe retaliates
- European Commission memo says trade between EU-U.S. is fair
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The European Union says it will continue a tit-for-tat escalation in its trade dispute with the U.S. while countering President Donald Trump’s assertion that the U.S. is being treated unfairly by the 28-nation bloc.
Jyrki Katainen, the EU commissioner in charge of jobs and growth, told the French newspaper Le Monde in a story posted Saturday that if Trump applies new tariffs to European cars, as he threatened this week, the bloc “again, would have no choice but to react.”