European Union will announce in the next few hours countermeasures in response to US President Donald Trump’s tariffs on US steel and Aluminum imports from the European Union, Canada and Mexico, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said.

Juncker expressed his displeasure at Trump’s decision, saying at a press conference in Brussels that it was a bad day for world trade, and the EU could not remain without responding forcefully to the cartoons. What the Americans can do is perfectly capable of us.

In a statement, Juncker noted that the United States left the EU with no other options than to bring the dispute to the WTO and impose additional tariffs on certain products imported from America.

The statement said that this mechanism may need years to be long, will be launched before the World Trade Organization today, the first day of June 2018.

German Foreign Minister Haikou Mas said that our response to the United States is the united Europe, adding that everyone is losing in trade wars. There are no victors in these wars.

The European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström said that in recent months she had spoken to US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on more than one occasion and asked him to back down on the additional tariff decision to avoid commercial wars. The EU did everything it could to avoid This war, but negotiations with America did not work.

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US President Donald Trump announced two months ago the imposition of customs duties on US imports of steel by 25% and aluminum by 10%, which caused a lot of volatility and turmoil in the global market.

China, the European Union, Mexico and Canada, and all the countries affected by the decision, rejected and resentment, and called for Trump to back down, but soon after the US President approved the fee and began to implement it already, which prompted China to respond strongly and also announced the imposition of customs duties More than 128 US products.