EU Sees €28 Billion Hit From Trump’s Steel and Aluminum Tariffs

  • Sefcovic debriefed EU envoys on Friday after his visit to US
  • Trump is preparing additional retaliatory tariffs, car duties

Steel coils in storage at a plant in Salzgitter, Germany.

Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
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The European Union estimates that the first wave of Donald Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs will hit as much as €28 billion ($29.3 billion) of the bloc’s exports in what would be a massive escalation in the US president’s trade war.