White House warns EU against retaliatory tariffs – Washington Examiner
Teh White house has cautioned the European Union (EU) against pursuing retaliatory tariffs, labeling such actions a “grave mistake.” This warning comes after the EU announced plans too impose tariffs on nearly $112 billion of U.S. goods, including aircraft, in response to U.S. tariffs. Trade adviser Peter Navarro emphasized that retaliating against the U.S. would not be in the spirit of negotiations and could result in further trade tensions. He argued that the U.S. aims for fairness in trade and warned that the dominant strategy should focus on collaboration rather than retaliation. navarro also declined to disclose details about upcoming trade negotiations with China or other countries, while defending a recent trade deal with the UK that maintains certain tariffs.
White House warns EU against retaliatory tariffs after countermeasure reveal
The White House has warned the European Union that its proposal to retaliate against U.S. tariffs would be a “grave mistake.”
Trade adviser Peter Navarro issued the warning after the European Commission earlier Thursday announced potential tariffs on almost $112 billion of U.S. imports, including aircraft, and that it would lodge a dispute with the World Trade Organization over President Donald Trump‘s “Liberation Day” duties and auto levies.
“Let me just say that any country which retaliates against the United States, which is simply trying to get fairness, is making a grave mistake,” Navarro told the Washington Examiner. “It’s not a road I think that we want to go down.”
Navarro criticized the EU’s proposal as not being “in the interest or the spirit of negotiations that really are going to be as effective as they otherwise could be.”
“So I would just caution that retaliation is not a, as they say in game theory, it’s not the dominant strategy,” he said. “The dominant strategy for Europe and others to recognize is that the United States will not tolerate unfairness to its people and producers.”
During an impromptu press conference with reporters outside the West Wing, Navarro declined to preview the White House’s negotiations with China this weekend in Switzerland, nor with which country the next trade deal will be struck or when.
Navarro did defend criticism of the “free trade” deal with the United Kingdom that Trump announced Thursday morning while on the phone with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Under this deal, 10% tariffs remain imposed on the U.K.
“It’s a realignment away from a system where the American people and American producers are being exploited by the system itself,” he said. “If you simply look at the deal itself, to just take in at face value, what are we doing? We’re reducing trade barriers to agriculture, the non-tariff barriers, mostly non-tariff barriers that are being lowered.”
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Much of the deal remains unknown amid concerns the British market will not buy U.S. chlorinated chicken and beef with hormones.
“Let’s see what the market says,” Navarro said. “Our position is, and always has been, that behind much of these, what they call phytosanitary standards for agriculture, is simply a phony tool that’s used to suppress what are very fine American agricultural products.”
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