The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said on Tuesday that the European Union had not yet proposed what he considered a trade agreement just when Brussels is under the threat of the new rights of US customs.
“We are arguing, but I don’t have the impression that they are offering a fair agreement for the moment,” Donald Trump told journalists from the Air Force plane while he went to Washington after having prematurely left the G7 summit in Canada.
On April 9, Donald Trump suspended for 90 days the establishment of “reciprocal” customs tasks that are addressed to dozens of commercial partners, including the European Union, to reach tariff agreements.
“The Japanese are difficult”
On Monday, the German newspaper Handelsblatt reported that Brussels was ready to accept under certain conditions an American customs’ right of 10% in its exports, the information qualified later as “speculative” by the European Commission.
Donald Trump also judged that Japan, who is also trying to establish a commercial agreement with Washington, was “difficult” in negotiations.
“They are difficult, the Japanese are difficult, but in the end, you must understand that we will simply send a letter saying ‘this is what you will pay, otherwise you do not have to do business with us. But there is a possibility,” he said.
Source: BFM TV
