{"id":15857,"date":"2025-04-13T07:03:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T07:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/15857\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T07:03:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T07:03:21","slug":"eu-targets-trumps-red-states-with-tariffs-on-us-trucks-cigarettes-and-ice-cream-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/15857\/","title":{"rendered":"EU targets Trump\u2019s red states with tariffs on US trucks, cigarettes and ice cream \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, women\u2019s neglig\u00e9es from Ohio and Kentucky, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/on-the-eus-tariff-hit-list-american-chicken-wings-motorbikes-and-womens-negliges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a fan favorite from the Commission\u2019s first proposal<\/a>, made the final cut; so did men\u2019s undergarments, although they are mostly found in blue states.<\/p>\n<p>Zooming back<\/p>\n<p>The trade war unleashed by Trump comes with a hefty price for Washington, as Canada and China have responded to the U.S. president\u2019s deluge of duties with their own counter tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, retaliatory measures imposed by China, Canada and the EU will hit nearly $90 billion of American exports.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has mainly targeted U.S. produce, slapping a 15 percent duty on commodities like chicken, wheat and corn along with 10 percent on soybeans, meat, fruit and other farm exports. Canada, meanwhile, has imposed two sets of tariffs \u2014 25 percent on a range of agrifood products, and another 25 percent on steel and aluminum products.<\/p>\n<p>For its part, Brussels <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/donald-trump-says-eu-must-buy-350b-of-us-energy-to-get-tariff-relief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has experimented with a carrot-and-stick approach<\/a> to signal it won\u2019t bow to Trump\u2019s demands while leaving the door open to negotiations. On Monday the bloc offered a \u201czero-for-zero\u201d tariff scheme on industrial goods covering cars, drugs, chemicals, plastics and machinery among other things.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/donald-trump-says-eu-must-buy-350b-of-us-energy-to-get-tariff-relief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump, however, said the offer fell short<\/a> and urged EU countries to buy $350 billion worth of American energy products to make the trade deficit \u201cdisappear \u2026 in one week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a last resort, the bloc could wield its \u201ctrade bazooka\u201d to hit U.S. services, which would take the trade war to a whole new level \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-trade-bazooka-anti-coercion-instrument-donald-trump-tariffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">something not all EU countries are ready to do just yet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finally, women\u2019s neglig\u00e9es from Ohio and Kentucky, a fan favorite from the Commission\u2019s first proposal, made the final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1212,6850,943,346,10684,1395,10778,8514,32,1396,2000,299,5187,1214,10779,36,2307,475,678,2199,2441,7911,2132,809,10687,10780,1199,7161,1218,479,1201,1219,49,10781],"class_list":{"0":"post-15857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-aluminum","9":"tag-beef","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-cars","12":"tag-chemicals","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-corn","15":"tag-customs","16":"tag-donald-trump","17":"tag-dumping-duties","18":"tag-eu","19":"tag-europe","20":"tag-european","21":"tag-exports","22":"tag-farms","23":"tag-france","24":"tag-georgia","25":"tag-imports","26":"tag-ireland","27":"tag-italy","28":"tag-markets","29":"tag-meat","30":"tag-mexico","31":"tag-negotiations","32":"tag-plastics","33":"tag-poultry","34":"tag-services","35":"tag-soybeans","36":"tag-steel","37":"tag-tariffs","38":"tag-trade","39":"tag-trade-war","40":"tag-united-states","41":"tag-wheat"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114329380695321036","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15857","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=15857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}