New threat from Donald Trump to the EU. After Brussels hold his knee to the US president and accept a tariff pact of 15% taxes on import imports, the tycoon has threatened on Tuesday with raising the figure to 35% if the twenty -seven do not comply with what was agreed. The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, promised to invest 600,000 million dollars in purchases to the United States. But the reality is that the EU cannot dictate to European companies where to spend money.
The US president has launched the threat against the EU when 48 hours are missing for the entry into force, this Thursday, of the new tariffs and when no agreement has been published that includes the small print on the pacts.
“They dropped their tariffs. They paid $ 600,000 million and, therefore, I reduced the tariffs from 30% to 15%, and a couple of countries came and said: 'How is it that the EU pays less than us?'
It is worth clarifying that even though Trump speaks of a decrease from 30%to 15%, the truth is that the commercial war with the Europeans began with a 20%tax. Shortly after, the Republican played his strategy of raising the bet to the fullest and began to threaten with the application of 30% rates, which never came to be seen on paper. Even so, the 30% threat has served Trump to show himself as a president Clemente. But there was never a real reduction of 15%, but has only been 5%.
The president has assured that with these 600,000 million promised by the EU he can do “whatever.” “The detail is this: 600,000 million to invest in whatever I want, in anything. I can do what I want with that money,” he told the CNBC. Although, as expected, it is not as simple as the Republican says. The 600,000 million agreement is not a blank check that Trump receives from the EU, but a series of investment and spending agreements on American energy products.
Trump has also assured on Tuesday that tariffs for pharmaceutical imports could reach 250%, after the White House tenant warned last week to 17 companies in the sector of the need to commit to lower the prices of medicines in the country. The tycoon explained that he will initially impose a “small tariff” to pharmaceutical products, but that later, in a year and a half maximum, he could raise that rate to 150% and then 250%.
“We will initially impose a small tariff on pharmaceutical products, but in a year – a year and a half – will rise to 150% and then 250% because we want pharmaceutical products to be manufactured in our country,” he said.
At the beginning of July, Trump had already threatened to impose strong tariffs on pharmacists who do not transfer their production to the US, although at that time the tax he had raised was 200%.