Juncker pledges to boost auto tariffs if Trump reneges on agreement

[highplainsdem]

Source: Reuters

BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Union will respond in kind if U.S. President Donald Trump reneges on his pledge not to impose car tariffs, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said as trade tensions between Europe and the United States rose again.

Juncker told German broadcaster ZDF on Friday that the EU would not let anyone determine its trade policies. If Washington decided to imposed tariffs on vehicles after all, he said, “then we will also do that”.

Trump rejected on Thursday an EU offer to eliminate tariffs on cars and said the EU’s trade policies are “almost as bad as China”, Bloomberg News reported.

Juncker said he had negotiated a “ceasefire agreement” on trade with Trump in July and while such deals were often jeopardised, they were generally respected.

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[sandensea]

1. Trumpkins will begin pouring French wine into gutters any day now.

The closest they'll ever come to quality, I guess.

[lark]

2. Wow, how awful!

What a tragic waste of great wine that would be, especially if it's white wine from Alsace, my favorite kind in the world.

[sandensea]

3. Vraiment.

You'll recall that that's eaxctly what they did when Chirac voiced opposition to Dubya's Iraq War.

The rest, c'est l'histoire.

[paleotn]

4. They wouldn't know French wine

if a cask fell on them

[sandensea]

5. And what's more, they're proud of it.

If it's not called JB or Jim Beam, they don't trust it.

[paleotn]

6. You've got them. Spot on.