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U.S. Allies Jostle to Win Exemptions From Trump Tariffs
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/09/business/trump-tariffs-exemptions.htmlU.S. Allies Jostle to Win Exemptions From Trump Tariffs
By JACK EWING | MARCH 9, 2018
FRANKFURT — South Korea invoked its role in trying to defang North Korea. Europe reminded the United States that it was, in fact, a longstanding military ally. And Australia deployed a secret weapon: the golfing legend Greg Norman, a friend of President Trump.
A day after the American president signed an order imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, manufacturing nations began jockeying to be among those exempted from the levies, trying a mix of persuasion and threats, of personal appeals and diplomatic leverage.
Even as European Union leaders drew up a list of American products that they said would be subject to retaliatory tariffs and threatened to take their case to the World Trade Organization, they also recalled the long history of trans-Atlantic bonhomie.
Brigitte Zypries, the German economics minister, wrote in a letter to Wilbur Ross, the United States commerce secretary, that Europe and America should work together to address the real problem: a global glut of steel production that has driven down prices.
