Trump, European Union and tariff
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The European Union dominates critical pharmaceutical imports into the United States, making the 30% tariffs Trump threatened to go into effect Aug. 1 particularly risky.
A threatened 30% tariff on European wines would hurt many U.S. companies while hiking prices at home and in restaurants, industry experts warn.
Updated April 09, 2025 at 18:10 PM ET. All member countries of the European Union except Hungary voted Wednesday in favor of proposals that would impose tariffs on specific U.S. products sold into ...
The European Union announced on Wednesday its own countermeasures, saying they will enter into force on April 1, after the Trump administration officially increased tariffs on all steel and ...
Confident that his right-wing populist policies would help win him favor with Trump’s administration, Orbán said in an interview in April that while tariffs “will be a disadvantage,” his government was negotiating “other economic agreements and issues that will offset them.”
The dollar traded sideways versus the euro on Thursday after the European Central Bank held rates steady, and was confined to a tight range against the yen as prospects for higher Japanese rates offset worries about political risk after Sunday's elections.
The European Central Bank on Thursday kept interest rates steady amid major economic uncertainty, as the European Union scrambles to negotiate a trade agreement with the U.S. before the end of the month.
The European Union will merge two packages of potential tariffs against the U.S. so that both are ready to take effect in early August if no deal has been reached with the Trump administration. The combined list will need approval from EU member states and could take effect as soon as Aug.