During the November presidential campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly warned about the possibility of introducing new tariffs on goods supplied by the European Union.
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As reported by NBN with reference to CNN, The newly elected US President Donald Trump made a statement today, December 20, that the EU needs to quickly reduce the trade deficit with the United States by significantly expanding its purchase of American oil and gas, otherwise Brussels will face the introduction of tariffs, that is, simply, a trade war.
According to US statistics, since 2022, the deficit in the trade balance of Washington and Brussels, concerning the stable turnover of goods and services, has reached a very impressive amount of $131.3 billion.
In the opinion of Western analysts, against the backdrop of the warning from the newly elected US president, there is a high level of uncertainty regarding the possible scale of the tariffs that Trump is either ready or able to introduce. At the same time, to some extent, the rhetoric of the new head of the White House is an ultimatum, and, judging by everything, will become the starting point for concluding updated appropriate agreements with the European Union.
Earlier, our information portal wrote about the media revealing the probable dates of the official meeting between Scholz and Trump.