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Should EU consider automatic US tariff retaliation after latest Trump threat?

By Joanna Sopinska ( July 13, 2025, 13:43 GMT | Comment) -- The EU has chosen not to respond immediately to yesterday's US threat of a 30 percent import tariff from Aug. 1. But politicians and experts argue ever more loudly that the European Commission should reinforce its position in the final stage of talks with US President Donald Trump by making potential retaliation more painful and automatic if no satisfactory outcome is reached by that date.Yesterday's US threat to impose tariffs of 30 percent on EU imports presented the European Commission with a dilemma: Should it delay retaliation in the hope of negotiating a lower rate, or should it activate its retaliation right away to show it won't be bulled?...

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