{"id":10506,"date":"2025-04-11T10:18:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T10:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/10506\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T10:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T10:18:20","slug":"eu-takes-revenge-on-trumps-tariffs-as-countries-approve-e20b-retaliation-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/10506\/","title":{"rendered":"EU takes revenge on Trump\u2019s tariffs as countries approve \u20ac20B+ retaliation \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only Hungary opposed the package, according to four EU diplomats with direct knowledge of the vote, while all other 26 countries voted in favor.<\/p>\n

\u201cEscalation is not the answer. Such measures would cause further damage to European economy and citizens by raising prices. The only way forward is negotiations, not retaliation,\u201d Hungary’s Foreign and Trade Minister\u00a0P\u00e9ter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 said in a\u00a0post<\/a>\u00a0on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fourteen EU countries would have needed to vote against the retaliation, which had been seen as unlikely considering the shows of unity in recent weeks. <\/p>\n

The retaliation did not, however, contain a response to Trump\u2019s imposition of 20 percent \u201creciprocal\u201d tariffs on all EU exports, which took effect on Wednesday but were paused later that evening as the U.S. president announced a temporary halt<\/a>\u00a0to tariffs above 10 percent for most U.S. trading partners<\/p>\n

The EU has yet to respond to Trump’s latest 25 percent tariff on cars, or to U.S. tariffs on pharmaceuticals that the American leader has said are coming soon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The European Commission has previously said it is considering putting forward its countermeasures<\/a> on those tariffs as early as next week. \u201cIt will for sure be soon. I expect it could be as early as next week,\u201d trade spokesperson Olof Gill said Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Only Hungary opposed the package, according to four EU diplomats with direct knowledge of the vote, while all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1212,346,32,2000,299,5187,1214,5435,5549,1199,7161,1218,479,1201,49,1220],"class_list":{"0":"post-10506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-aluminum","9":"tag-cars","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-exports","15":"tag-gas","16":"tag-safety","17":"tag-services","18":"tag-soybeans","19":"tag-steel","20":"tag-tariffs","21":"tag-trade","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114318822877161663","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}