EU announces $28 billion in counter tariffs on U.S. goods

The European Union announced Wednesday counter tariffs of 26 billion euros ($28.33 billion) on U.S. goods, "matching the economic scope" of President Trump's levies.

The big picture: Trump's 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports took effect earlier on Wednesday.

Driving the news: The EU will end on April 1 the suspension of countermeasures the bloc announced during the first Trump administration, per a Wednesday statement from the European Commission.

• "These countermeasures target a range of US products that respond to the economic harm done on €8 billion of EU steel and aluminium exports," according to the statement.
• "Second, in response to new U.S. tariffs affecting more than €18 billion of EU exports, the Commission is putting forward a package of new countermeasures on US exports" that will "come into force by mid-April, following consultation of Member States and stakeholders."

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https://www.axios.com/2025/03/12/trump-tariffs-eu-counter-levies

 

[Tall Timbers]

The US market is nearly twice Europe's. This could get interesting. If leaders become extra stubborn we could see old alliances die and new ones sprout up to replace them. Canada and the EU both have largely relied on the USA for defense needs. Maybe the USA will end those defensive alignments before this is all over. Canada is relatively safe anyway, given that it is USA's neighbor to the north, but the EU... now that's a whole 'nother story.

 

[Tall Timbers]

The European Union is reportedly seeking to put pressure specifically on Republican-controlled states as it enacts so-called retaliatory tariff measures on American businesses amid the trade war with the Trump administration.

As an order from U.S. President Donald Trump to impose global 25 per cent tariffs on aluminium and steel products, which are expected to impact an estimated €26 ($28) billion worth of EU exports to America, Brussels announced on Wednesday a package of countermeasures covering about the same in American exports to the bloc.

According to the Associated Press, EU officials admitted that their tariffs would be “aimed at products made in Republican-held states,” including meat produced in Kansas and Nebraska and lumber products from Alabama and Georgia. The bloc will also impose levies against American bourbon whiskey and Harley-Davidson motorcycles.

EU to Target Republican States With Tariffs in Trump Trade War

The EU will reportedly seek to specifically pressure Republican-controlled states as it enacts so-called retaliatory tariffs on America.

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The US should contact the elected political leaders of all the countries in the EU that are NATO and advise them that if the targeted tariffs against red states goes into effect the USA withdraws from NATO and will immediately begin deploying it's military members and all of the military hardware that is owned by the USA out of NATO countries. Our military agreements with Canada actually have more value to the USA than NATO does to the USA.

 

[Tall Timbers]

Dissolve NATO and I wonder how long it would take before there is war between European states once again...

 

[Margery]

Dissolve NATO and I wonder how long it would take before there is war between European states once again...

I think that is the plan.

Just not war between the Euros, but between that East West Divide in Europe that is drawn alongside Russia. There is an eastern cultural divide that separates Western Europe from the Eastern area controlled by Russia in times past. That fracture line is where the Catholic and Orthodox churches divide. Even though much of Western Europe split off from the Catholics into the multiple flavours of Protestant, there is an ancient line of division and it's a fracture zone.

Get the US out of Europe, so the globalists can carve it up into their zones- The Eurozone, the North Africa/Middle East region and Russia and it's hordes of mini Stans.

Arm the Eurozone, create war between the Russian zone and the Eurozone, and stand back while the profiteers make their money from war. In the ashes the globalists can pick up the pieces and control the lot. War is good for business or so they say.

At least that is what I think they are planning.

God has other plans. The Bible lists what will happen.

I am not joking that I think the plan with all the NATO posturing in Ukraine was to provoke just this sort of situation.

Ezek 38 will draw the Ukraine back under Russian control and gather the Stans. They will unite with Turkey which are the people they came out of when the Orthodox remnants of Constantinople fled north. This is the Eastern Leg of Rome regathered.

It's really interesting to look at it thru history. The area defined by the "holy" Roman Empire which was Western Europe, France, Spain and it's vassals, Germany and it's vassals, and Italy covers most of Western Europe especially when you look and see the Lutheran Scandis as part of that mixture. The Western Leg of Rome.

And the feet have toes part of iron, part of clay that don't want to stick together.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Guess the wild rice, maple syrup, Scotch tape, Post-It Notes, Betty Crocker cake mixes, General Mills cereals, Gold Medal Flour, Hormel Nerf balls, Redwing boots, Tonka trucks, etc. from Minnesota are safe

Probably the LGBTQABCXYZ toys, too [sigh]


OTOH, maybe we should just keep the "good stuff" here in the USA

 

[Margery]

Guess the wild rice, maple syrup, Scotch tape, Post-It Notes, Betty Crocker cake mixes, General Mills cereals, Gold Medal Flour, Hormel Nerf balls, Redwing boots, Tonka trucks, etc. from Minnesota are safe

Probably the LGBTQABCXYZ toys, too [sigh]


OTOH, maybe we should just keep the "good stuff" here in the USA

I would- look at that list- some wild rice fried with spam both of which I really like, maybe a maple syrup drizzled cereal for breakfast with Hormel bacon on the side. Don't forget a nice cake for dessert on Sunday! Sounds pretty nice.