When asked during a meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the EU proposal “zero for zero” regarding duties on industrial goods and cars, Trump said it was insufficient. He again mentioned the list of grievances to EU, accusing her of “using” the United States and that she was formed “to create a united strength against the United States regarding trade“.
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“These relationships must be honestly, each other. And they are not fair. We have a deficit with the European Union in the amount of $ 350 billion. And it will disappear quickly” – assured Trump.” And one of the reasons that it can easily and quickly disappear is that they will have to buy energy from us because they need it. They will have to buy it from us. They can buy it. We can beat $ 350 billion. within one week. They must buy and commit to buy a similar amount of energy, “said Trump.
In fact, the EU surplus in the trade in goods from the USA is about $ 150 billion, but the US has a surplus in the trade in services of $ 100 billion.
When asked about ambiguous signals about whether the announced duties remain permanently – because Trump also talks about negotiations to lower them – the US president replied that both things could be true.
“I don't mind to bring this (duties) to the end, because I see a beautiful picture at the end, but we are making great progress (in negotiations) with many countries, and the countries that really used us, now they say: please, let's negotiate. You know why? Because they are very covered because of what is happening. They are strongly beaten. They are devaluated as countries,” said Trump.
However, he did not want to undertake to reduce customs duties, including on Israel, which announced the abolition of all tariffs to US products.
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At the same time, asked why he did not impose duties on goods from Russia, Trump replied that because “in practice he is not doing business with Russia, because they are in war” (in fact, Russian imports to the USA amounted to $ 3 billion). He also assessed that talks with Ukraine are “a little close” of success, but he pointed out that “he doesn't like the whole bombing” he saw during the last week.
