Laurent Saint-Martin, Delegate Minister of Foreign Trade, put on the table the possibility of a “proportional response” after Donald Trump’s threats to impose 30% of customs tasks on August 1 on the products of the European Union, this Saturday, July 12.
“The French position is clear: a fair agreement or a proportional response (goods, services, anti-coercion),” he wrote in X. To allow the conditions of an agreement, a meeting will be held in Brussels this Monday, July 14.
“A balance of power” to restore
“I will be working to support the commission in their negotiations with the United States until August 1,” he said.
The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, warned in X that, if this announcement was implemented, this “would interrupt the essential transatlantic supply chains.”
For Benjamin Haddad, minister delegate in charge of Europe, “a serious negotiation is carried out when establishing a balance of power.”
The countercurrents that the European Commission must prepare must be based on “taxes on American products” and “the activation of the anti-coercion instrument that will allow us to expand to services, especially digital,” he emphasizes.
Source: BFM TV
