{"id":13257,"date":"2025-04-12T08:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T08:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/13257\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T08:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T08:28:15","slug":"macron-says-trump-tariff-suspension-is-fragile-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/13257\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron says Trump tariff suspension is \u2018fragile\u2019 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/09\/trump-pauses-tariffs-00281494\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump announced<\/a> Wednesday a 90-day pause on the most severe new &#8220;reciprocal&#8221; tariffs \u2014 up to 50 percent \u2014 he had imposed a week earlier on nearly all countries, plus the European Union. But a strict 10 percent tariff regime remains in place for much of the world, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/trump-tariffs-whats-his-next-move-%e2%80%95-and-europes-gameplan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">continuing to roil financial markets<\/a>, while Trump continues to go after China with punitive 145 percent tariffs. <\/p>\n<p>In response to Trump&#8217;s climbdown, the European Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-weighs-90-day-pause-of-its-response-to-trumps-metals-duties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said Thursday<\/a> it would also suspend for 90 days its countermeasures against the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>According to the French president, Europe must stay united and continue to mobilize every available tool to defend itself and assert its economic sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are right to fight: jobs and the lives of our communities are at stake,\u201d Macron said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump announced Wednesday a 90-day pause on the most severe new &#8220;reciprocal&#8221; tariffs \u2014 up to 50 percent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1212,32,34,2000,8954,299,5187,2816,36,38,43,1218,479,1219,6717,5465,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-13257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-aluminum","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-emmanuel-macron","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-eu-us-trade-talks","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-politics","16":"tag-france","17":"tag-french-politics","18":"tag-macron","19":"tag-steel","20":"tag-tariffs","21":"tag-trade-war","22":"tag-transatlantic-relations","23":"tag-u-s-economy","24":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114324052882239992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13257","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=13257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}