February 24, 2021
The equivalent figure for steel is only roughly
"We are here and they will get to know us.Arcelor Mittal, the worlds biggest
steelmaker with sizeable European and US operations, said it was assessing the
likely impact, while adding governments were right to take a tough approach to
unfair trade.Europe, they said, was likely to respond quickly with safeguard
measures.
The equivalent figure for steel is only roughly 1.However, they would
have to apply to selected steel grades from all countries and so would hit
producers from China, India, Russia, South Korea or Turkey. We would like a
reasonable relationship to the United States, but we cannot simply put our head
in the sand.Read also: No exclusions for countries from Trump tariffs: US
officialThe European Commission has called Trumps plan a blatant intervention
amounting to protectionism.The 3."The planned reduction in US imports accounts
for only just shy of 3 percent of global imports in the case of
aluminium.Clemens Fuest, the president of Germanys Ifo economic institute, told
the Bayerischer Rundfunk broadcaster "a clear answer, but a limited one" was
required in response."Trump said on Thursday the United States would apply
duties of 25 percent on imported steel and 10 percent on aluminium to protect
domestic producers. Its exports make up more than 5 percent of US steel
imports.The Thomson Reuters European steel equities index fell 1.US steel makes
up less than 1 percent of EU steel imports.The European Union is considering
applying 25 percent tariffs on USD 3.BSC analysts said the short-term impact for
Russian steel stocks should be limited and said the measures were a "zero issue"
for aluminium producer Rusal. consumers.Trump tweeted on Friday that trade wars
are good and "easy to win".Brussels will join other countries in challenging the
measures at the WTO and says it will also look into safeguards."
We will put
tariffs on Harley-Davidson, on bourbon and on blue jeans - Levis," European
Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told German television.The European
Commission has said any counter-measures would conform to World Trade
Organization (WTO) rules.Turkeys steel exporters association said it did not
expect a major impact.5 percent," said the bank.Commerzbank said that even if
the United States achieved its goal of reducing imports by implementing steep
trade tariffs, the impact should be limited. Including tubes, the figure is 5
million tonnes, which Eurofer said could be cut in half by the US measures.Data
from European steel association Eurofer shows the United States was the
destination of about 15 percent of Europes steel exports in 2017.4 million
tonnes crossing the Atlantic is about 2 percent of EU steel production.5 billion
of goods - a third steel, a third industrial goods and a third agricultural - to
"rebalance" bilateral trade, EU sources said.7 percent on Friday, while London
Metal Exchange aluminium prices were trading flat at around USD 2,150 a
tonne.The EU sees itself as a global counterweight to a protectionism-inclined
Trump, sealing a trade deal with Japan, which had been part of a planned
trans-Pacific trade alliance Trump withdrew from on his first day in
office.Analysts from Jefferies said the actual measures announced next week
could be more nuanced than an across-the-board 25 percent tariff for steel,
which it said was politically unfeasible and viewed as a direct tax on
U.Safeguard wholesale
Hex Nuts China measures, last deployed in 2002 in response to steel import
duties set by then US President George W.S.Brussels: Europe has drawn up a list
of US products from bourbon to Harley Davidson motorbikes on which to apply
tariffs if US President Donald Trump follows through on a plan to impose global
duties on aluminium and steel..Full-scale retaliation would go against its
long-standing message that global trade should be free - as well as fair. Bush,
would be designed to guard against a flood of imports resulting from the US
tariffs set to be formally announced next week
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