Trump exposes the EU trade barriers that unfairly exclude US goods

Express:
Donald Trump issued his most critical assessment of the EU to date during a campaign rally last night, as his rant against Brussels drew huge applause.

President Trump, who was addressing a rally in Pennsylvania, railed against the EU over tariffs and laid down a tough red line in his talks with the bloc.

He said that he will remove the tariffs only if the EU open up their barriers and get rid of every single one of their tariffs.

President Trump told a rapturous crowd: "Now, all these countries are ringing up. A lot of you are originally from EU countries, that sounds nice, but the EU they kill us on trade.

"You hear European union, sounds so innocent. It’s not innocent. They’re very tough. They’re very smart. We lose $100 billion a year.

"We charge them practically nothing. We sell things into them, number one, you can’t get it through the barriers. They have artificial barriers.

"That’s not a monetary barrier, that’s other things, environmental, they come up with things you wouldn’t even believe. We can’t get our product in there.

"So I said open up your barriers, get rid of your tariffs, and we’ll do this.

"If you don't do that we're going to tax Mercedes Benz, we're going to tax BMWs. Cars are the big money item."

Before the rally took place, Mr Trump tweeted his irritation at the EU's manipulation of trade, saying: "The European Union, wonderful countries who treat the U.S. very badly on trade, are complaining about the tariffs on Steel & Aluminum.

"If they drop their horrific barriers & tariffs on U.S. products going in, we will likewise drop ours. Big Deficit. If not, we Tax Cars etc."
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The EU acts as trade hypocrites.  They are control freaks in dealing with imports.

What Trump is doing is exposing their existing barriers to free trade by proposing tariffs.  It is strange that those who are critical of Trump's proposed tariffs have not criticized the ones we face with the EU.  If Trump could get them to drop their barriers it would be better for the US and for the people inside the EU.  It is not just steel and aluminum that are the problem with the EU.  They impose confiscatory sanctions on US tech companies as well as control freak regulations.

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