Trump Threatens New EU, China Tariffs Over Lobster in Maine Trip
- President has repeatedly threatened to tariff EU-made cars
- Trump calls trade adviser Navarro the ‘Lobster King’
Donald Trump speaks in Bangor, Maine on June 5.
Photographer: Patrick Semansky/AP Photo
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President Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on cars made in the European Union and on unspecified Chinese products unless the trading partners reduce their duties on U.S. lobster.
“If the European Union doesn’t drop that tariff immediately, we’re going to put a tariff on their cars, which would be equivalent,” Trump said in a roundtable event in Bangor, Maine, with commercial fishermen and the state’s former Republican governor, Paul LePage. “It’ll be the equivalent, plus,” he added.