When asked at a gathering with Israeli Prime Minister Binjamin Netanyahu about the EU proposal "zero for zero" on duties on industrial goods and cars, Trump said it wasn't enough. Again he mentioned a list of claims to the EU, alleging its ‘use’ of the United States and that it was formed "to make a united force against the United States on trade".
Trump on duties imposed on the EU
— These relationships should be honest, mutual. They are not honest.... We have a deficit of $350 billion with the European Union, and it will rapidly disappear," Trump assured. “ 1 of the reasons why it can easy and rapidly vanish is due to the fact that they will gotta buy energy from us due to the fact that they request it. They'll gotta buy it from us. They can buy it. We can make $350 billion in 1 week. They must buy and commit to buying a akin amount of energy, says Trump.
In fact, EU surplus in trade in goods from the US is about 150 billion dollars..but it is the US that has a surplus in the trade of services of $100 billion.
When asked about ambiguous signals about whether the duties announced would stay permanent — due to the fact that Trump besides talks about negotiations to lower them — the president of the United States replied that both things could be true.
— I don't head bringing this to an end due to the fact that I see a beautiful image at the end, but we are making tremendous advancement with many countries, And the countries that truly utilized us now say, please, let's negotiate. You know why? due to the fact that they get hit hard due to what's going on. They're badly beaten. They are devalued as countries," Trump claimed.
However, he did not want to commit himself to reducing customs duties on Israel, among others, which announced the abolition of all tariffs on US products.
At the same time asked about this, Why did he not impose duties on Russian goods, Trump replied due to the fact that “in practice he does not do business with Russia due to the fact that they are at war.” He besides assessed that talks with Ukraine are "a small close" to success, but he pointed out that “he does not like all the bombings he has seen in the last week.
