Trump plans to impose 20% tariff on European cars in response to EU tariffs

The European tariffs on US items target politically resonant products, including 25 per cent duties on Harley-Davidson Inc. motorcycles, Levi Strauss & Co. jeans and bourbon whiskey

President Donald Trump said he plans to impose a 20 per cent tariff on all cars imported from the European Union unless the trade bloc “soon” removes import duties and other barriers to US goods, escalating global trade tensions.

“Based on the Tariffs and Trade Barriers long placed on the US and (on its) great companies and workers by the European Union, if these Tariffs and Barriers are not soon broken down and removed, we will be placing a 20 per cent Tariff on all of their cars coming into the US. Build them here!” Trump said in a tweet