US official says EU should consider separating Greenland tariff issue from US trade deal

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-official-says-eu-should-consider-separating-greenland-tariff-issue-us-trade-2026-01-17/

14 Comments

  1. The Trump administration has caused this problem and are losing control, especially with Canada.

  2. RespectableThug on

    Translation: “give us a domestic political win here so we can keep terrorizing you in other ways”

  3. It was their president who added the trade/tariff dimension into the Greenland issue in the first place. You can’t have a deal and then unilaterally change the deal later. That is some Darth Vader thinking

  4. Why would they do that? Trump is using trade and tariffs to pressure Greenland. Sauce for the goose and all that.

  5. Tariffs are a central part of any kind of trade deal. You can not have a trade deal where the level of tariffs is defined and then have one partner of that deal who comes up with new reasons to introduce some extra tariffs.

    And that comes after the US blew up dozens of existing trade deals and started a trade war with pretty much everyone. To me it seems pretty clear that Trump has no intention to keep his side of any trade deal so why should there even be one?

  6. EU played it smart. Asked for NATO exercises **with the US** to play with Trumps imaginary Russia and China threat. As soon as EU called his bluff about his imaginary scenario by actually involving the US to prepare and participate, he did a 180 and threw all cards off the table.

    Placing tariffs on a country you are supposed to buy piece of a territory from isnt working in his favor. If there was ever a chance (which there was not obviously).

    One of the most dumb presidents ever.

  7. What is this guy smoking?
    They apply a taste measure in response of European actions but evict us to not use this same measures?

  8. Jamieson Greer tries to shift the blame: “If they want to make it an issue in the trade deal that’s really up to them and not us”. No, its on you, you moron!