Donald Trump rejects Europe's offer to drop tariffs: "They are screwing us"

Donald Trump rejects Europe's offer to drop tariffs: "They are screwing us"

"The European Union has been very bad to us," the president said after the "zero-for-zero" proposal from the bloc

EU offered ‘zero-for-zero’ deal to US weeks before tariff announcement

Cars and other goods were to be included, according to EU trade commissioner, who says offer is still on tableThe EU has said it offered the US a “zero-for-zero” tariff deal on cars and industrial goods weeks before Donald Trump launched his trade war, but that it would not wait to defend itself.Maros Šefčovič, the EU commissioner for trade, said he had proposed zero tariffs on cars and a range of industrial goods, such as pharmaceutical product…

Donald Trump said it wasn't good enough for the EU just to offer a zero tariff - 13 bewildered and totally on-point responses

Donald Trump shows no sign of backing down on declaring trade war with basically the whole of the rest of the world (bar Russia, obviously). One theory is that he’ll quickly backtrack if America’s trading partners – sorry, rivals – basically offer the US a zero per cent traffic to get Trump back on board. […] The post Donald Trump said it wasn’t good enough for the EU just to offer a zero tariff – 13 bewildered and totally on-point responses app…