{"id":710814,"date":"2026-01-21T12:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/710814\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:36:11","slug":"britain-would-never-rule-out-retaliatory-tariffs-over-trumps-greenland-threats-says-uk-chancellor-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/710814\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain would \u2018never rule out\u2019 retaliatory tariffs over Trump\u2019s Greenland threats, says UK chancellor \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/according to five diplomats with knowledge of the situation\" target=\"_blank\">Germany has joined France in urging the European Commission<\/a> to prepare its most powerful trade weapon \u2014 the Anti-Coercion Instrument \u2014 if Trump refuses to back down on his threats, according to five diplomats with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>The tool would allow the bloc to impose tariffs, restrictions on investment and public procurement, and limits on intellectual property protections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday morning, European Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/donald-trump-ursula-von-der-leyen-tariff-threats-wrong-eu-prepared-to-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Ursula von der Leyen said<\/a> the U.S. president\u2019s \u201cproposed additional tariffs are simply wrong,\u201d warning that an escalation would only \u201cembolden the adversaries we are both so committed to keeping out of our strategic landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday called for calm over the U.S.\u2019s fraught trade relationship with the EU and U.K., warning that the \u201cworst thing countries can do is escalate against the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019m urging everyone here to do is sit back, take a deep breath, and let things play out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany has joined France in urging the European Commission to prepare its most powerful trade weapon \u2014 the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[1393,748,21882,32,393,36,1824,4884,366,6854,1197,1144,46027,619,712,479,1201,16,15,49,1220,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-710814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-anti-coercion-instrument","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-davos","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-france","16":"tag-germany","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-greenland","19":"tag-intellectual-property","20":"tag-investment","21":"tag-northern-ireland","22":"tag-public-procurement","23":"tag-rachel-reeves","24":"tag-scotland","25":"tag-tariffs","26":"tag-trade","27":"tag-uk","28":"tag-united-kingdom","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","31":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115933124032191049","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710814","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=710814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}