{"id":129512,"date":"2025-05-25T02:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T02:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/129512\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T02:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T02:15:09","slug":"will-trump-follow-through-on-his-new-eu-tariff-threat-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/129512\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Trump follow through on his new EU tariff threat? | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US president has threatened to impose a 50-percent tariff on all goods from the EU starting June 1.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump is once again taking aim at trading partners of the United States. This time it\u2019s the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>The US president is now threatening to impose a 50-percent tariff on all goods from the EU starting June 1. If he follows through, that will mean much higher import taxes on the EU\u2019s hundreds of billions of dollars\u2019 worth of exported goods.<\/p>\n<p>So is Europe about to pay a high price for not settling with Trump sooner? Or will Trump\u2019s tariffs \u2013 now his signature move \u2013 backfire for US manufacturing?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Tom Mcrae<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paolo von Schirach, President, Global Policy Institute<\/p>\n<p>Will Hutton, President, Academy of Social Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Wong, Fellow, Centre on Contemporary China and the World<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US president has threatened to impose a 50-percent tariff on all goods from the EU starting June&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,12,10471,10472,49,286],"class_list":{"0":"post-129512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-show-types","13":"tag-tv-shows","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-us-canada"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129512","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=129512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}