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Trump proclaims 30% tariffs on EU and Mexico, beginning Aug. 1
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Trump proclaims 30% tariffs on EU and Mexico, beginning Aug. 1

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Last updated: July 12, 2025 2:14 pm
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President Donald Trump stated Saturday the U.S. will impose a 30% tariff on items from the European Union and Mexico that may take impact on Aug. 1.

Trump revealed the brand new charges in letters to European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen and Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum, which he posted on his social media website Reality Social.

“Mexico has been serving to me safe the border, BUT, what Mexico has completed, isn’t sufficient,” Trump wrote to Sheinbaum.

Trump stated that there is not going to be tariffs on items from the EU if the 27-member bloc, “or firms throughout the EU, resolve to construct or manufacture product[s] inside the US,” he wrote.

He stated that if the EU or Mexico retaliates with larger tariffs, “then, regardless of the quantity you select to boost them by, can be added on to the 30% that we cost.”

The EU was in search of a minimum of a preliminary settlement that will spare it from changing into the most recent recipient of a letter from Trump dictating a brand new, across-the-board tariff on its exports to the U.S.

Nevertheless, it nonetheless obtained a letter from Trump threatening new tariffs, regardless of each side having not too long ago signaled progress of their negotiations after Trump backed off a risk to slap 50% tariffs on the bloc.

“Imposing 30 % tariffs on EU exports would disrupt important transatlantic provide chains, to the detriment of companies, customers and sufferers on each side of the Atlantic,” von der Leyen stated in a assertion.

She stated the EU stays “able to proceed working in direction of an settlement by August 1.”

“On the similar time, we are going to take all essential steps to safeguard EU pursuits, together with the adoption of proportionate countermeasures if required.”

The EU collectively sells extra to the U.S. than any single nation: Whole U.S. items imports from the EU topped $553 billion in 2022, based on the Workplace of the U.S. Commerce Consultant.

Trump has despatched related letters to 23 different U.S. buying and selling companions this week, together with Canada, Japan and Brazil, setting blanket tariff charges starting from 20% as much as 50%.

The letters principally body the brand new tariff ranges as a essential a part of the Trump administration’s efforts to shortly set up a extra “reciprocal” world commerce panorama.

Trump had tried to try this in a single fell swoop along with his “liberation day” tariff announcement on April 2, when he imposed a virtually world 10% tariff and slapped larger duties on imports from almost 60 particular person international locations.

The announcement prompted days of frenzied promoting in world markets. Trump put a 90-day pause on almost the entire larger tariffs every week later.

His commerce officers prompt that the U.S. may strike as many as 90 new commerce offers throughout that interval. However by the point the pause was set to run out on Wednesday, the administration had solely hashed out preliminary agreements with the UK and Vietnam.

Trump on Monday prolonged that tariff pause till Aug. 1. The tariff charges he set in his current spate of letters are all scheduled to kick in on the identical day.

Trump informed NBC Information on Thursday that he plans to ratchet up his world tariff baseline charge as excessive as 20%.

“We’re simply going to say the entire remaining international locations are going to pay, whether or not it is 20% or 15%. We’ll work that out now,” Trump stated.

That is breaking information. Please examine again for updates.

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