Commissioner Maros Sefcovic has emphasized that “the necessary time for negotiations” will be given, but he has warned that the European Union will “not be crossed with crossed weapons if no fair agreement is reached.”
The Commission of the European Union (EU), Maros SefcovicHe intends to speak with his American counterparts this Friday to insist on the dialogue to find a negotiated output for random rates of 20 % that President Donald Trump has announced for all EU imports and that add to the already private Levies for steel and aluminum and car production productions.
“Inevitably unjustified rates are counterproductive,” Sefcovic said in a short reaction spread on social networks hours after the announcement of Trump and after the contact of this Friday with the United States.
Sefcovic has been maintaining constant contact with the United States since the start of the tariff pulse, according to community sources, although they have hardly had two telephone conversations and two trips to Washington to the Minister of Trade, Howard Lutnick, Howard Lutnick, Howard Lutnick and the commercial manager, Jamieson L. Gree. The last trip, only 24 hours, there was Trump’s eve to announce the rates at the automotive sector.
“We will act calmly, carefully and in a uniform way, while we calibrate our answer,” said the Slovak politician, who wanted to emphasize that it will take place this way “The necessary time for negotiations”.
The Commissioner, who speaks in the name of the twenty -seven in commercial matters because it is a policy competence of Brussels, added that, with everything, the European Union “It will not be left with a crossed arms if no fair agreement is reached”.
In the absence of the details of the measures that Brussels Sopesa, community services work on a list of American products that tax on 15 April as a retribution to the 25 % rates that Washington already imposes on steel and aluminum.
This package, with a potential impact of 26 billion euros, will be discussed by the twenty -day on the 9th day with the aim that it can come into effect on 15 April, although the collection of a large part of them will be postponed until May to comply with the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Source: EITB
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