The European Union vowed to respond to 25% tariffs President Donald Trump said the US will impose on steel and aluminum imports, escalating a potential trade dispute with one of Washington’s closest allies.
February 11, 2025 at 7:26AM EST
The EU has prepared multiple lists of American goods to hit with retaliatory tariffs if Trump moves forward with levies, modeling various possibilities depending on what the initial US salvo looks like, Bloomberg reported earlier. The bloc could move quickly by re-applying duties it first imposed on the US during Trump’s first term.In a speech Tuesday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said if the US “leaves us no other choice, then the European Union will react to this as one.
For the EU, the fight over American metals tariffs started in 2018 during Trump’s first term, when the US hit nearly $7 billion of European steel and aluminum exports with duties, citing national security concerns. At the time, officials in Brussels scoffed at the notion that the EU posed such a threat.
A European government official said that unfreezing those tariffs, which are on pause until the end of March, could be done quickly. “The EU will act to safeguard its economic interests,” von der Leyen said in the statement. “We will protect our workers, businesses and consumers.”
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