US President Donald Trump offered the European Union to buy energy resources with $ 350 billion in exchange for reducing a trade deficit. “The European Union behaved very badly with us. They will have to buy energy from us because they need it, and they will have to buy it from us. They can buy it – and then we will be able to reduce a shortage by 350 billion in just one week, ”Trump said in the White House (quote for Reuters). Trump’s statement was a response to the words of the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Lyain, who offered the United States to mutually reset duties on cars and industrial goods. However, Trump, whom the journalists asked if he considers this proposal sufficient to weaken American duties, replied: “No, not enough.” The release of energy purchases in the United States in an attempt to prevent the introduction of duties, as Politico notes, is not new. Almost immediately after the re -election of Trump, von der Layen offered to start negotiations on the purchase of more American liquefied natural gas, but the United States “did not clarify” in response to how the deal could work. On April 2, Trump announced the introduction of duties in relation to most countries of the world – he called this day “the day of the liberation of America”. According to him, for the “decades” the United States has reduced trading barriers against other countries, while these countries “set huge tariffs” on American products. The US President also accused European countries of not buying enough American goods. The size of duties for EU countries amounted to 20%, and for all cars imported in the United States – separately 25%. On April 7, German Audi announced that he was suspended export of cars in the United States due to trade duties. The EU authorities, in turn, said that they plan to approve the list of response measures for American duties, and that the EU was ready to negotiate with the United States, but “will not wait endlessly.” In the documents prepared by the European Commission, as Bloomberg found out, we are talking about introducing a 25 percent duty on the import of a number of categories of goods from the United States. A world economy digests Trump’s tariffs: panic of investors, the collapse of oil prices and the expectation of a large trade war of the United States and China Chronicle of the Chaosir Economics digesting Trump’s tariffs: panic of investors, a collapse Waiting for a large trade war of the United States and China Chronicle of Chaos (Tagstotranslate) News
