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\n There’s a range of options for the EU to open trans-Atlantic negotiations to persuade US President Donald Trump not to slap harmful tariffs on EU goods, the former EU trade commissioner and WTO chief told Euronews.
\n ADVERTISEMENTThe EU holds several cards when it comes to negotiating its way out of economically harmful tariffs, former head of the WTO, Pascal Lamy has told Euronews’ Europe Conversation.Brussels has been preparing for the likelihood of\u00a0a second\u00a0Trump term for several months ahead of his election, with the spectre of trade tariffs central to such preparations.\u201cThey’ve\u00a0been thinking about that for months. I mean, the notion that Trump would be president of the\u00a0US\u00a0appeared, unfortunately, in my view, quite some time ago,\u201d\u00a0said Lamy,\u00a0who also served as EU Commissioner for Trade.\u201cThere is a range of issues where we probably could\u00a0open an interesting trans-Atlantic negotiation\u201d which would allow Brussels to prevent the application of tariffs, he said.One example he cited is potentially lowering the tariffs for US cars into the EU \u2013 a sector Trump has continuously mentioned.Here \u201che\u2019s got a crappy argument,\u00a0and he’s\u00a0got a reasonable argument\u201d, according to Lamy.\u201cThe crappy argument is \u2018there are plenty of Mercedes in\u00a0in New York, zero Chevrolets\u00a0in Berlin. This is a problem’,” he said, adding: “Unless there are\u00a0an\u00a0equal number of\u00a0Chevrolets\u00a0in Berlin as Mercedes in New York it\u2019s a problem for Trump according to his \u2018crappy argument’.”However, “where he’s\u00a0right is that the EU has an import tariff for cars of 10%, and the US has an import tariff\u00a0for cars at\u00a03%.\u201cSo maybe we\u00a0could accept a 5% or 6% or 7% or 8% tariff in the US, if they accept to lower their\u00a0tariffs on things which we would like to export more to the US\u00a0and which are not in his mind as a big problem,” said\u00a0Lamy.Trump gave an almost immediate reprieve of one month to Mexico and Canada after he announced 25%\u00a0tariffs on both countries. It followed an agreement by each to bolster their borders amid the fight against the illegal migration and the importation of synthetic drug fentanyl.China retaliated with relatively minor tariffs after his announcement to target Beijing on Sunday alongside Canada and Mexico.China said it would apply 15% on US\u00a0liquid natural gas\u00a0and coal and an anti-monopoly investigation into Google.If negotiations between the EU and US on tariffs fail, Lamy\u00a0said\u00a0the EU should retaliate, which will have implications for US exporters.”We have the means to retaliate because we have a large market and US exporters of a number of\u00a0products will have problems\u00a0if we retaliate,”\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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