EU warns it will ‘respond firmly’ to any US breach of tariff deal
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/region/eu-warns-it-will-respond-firmly-to-any-us-breach-of-tariff-deal-3216118
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EU warns it will ‘respond firmly’ to any US breach of tariff deal
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/region/eu-warns-it-will-respond-firmly-to-any-us-breach-of-tariff-deal-3216118
Posted by 1-randomonium
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Trump’s new Section 301 investigations into ‘unfair trade practices’ will enable him to impose new tariffs up to 100% on the EU after 150 days.
They should have activated the anti-coercion instrument instead of backing down after Trump cancelled his Greenland tariffs. This will go on for 3 more years alongside all the hot wars Trump is starting with various third-world countries.
First swearword used in a strongly-worded letter? I don’t know how the EU could get any firmer than that.
The letter that they send shall be so strongly worded, some people might consider it to be impolite.
von der Leyen will write a sternly worded letter….
Are you not scared living in the EU?
No, because I know who will send a strongly worded letter:
They intend to say you are in breach whether you are or not. It’s pretty obvious that’s the intention. Likewise with the other countries. All so Trump gets away with more arbitrary tarrifs.
The EU’s response:
*Oh, you’re really a tough nut to crack, you sly one!*
*🤝*
Have to see it to believe it. So far, I’ve seen most European leaders bow down to the orange turd.
They all act tough and yell a lot about strategic autonomy, but when push comes to shove, most of them chicken out.
This back and forth bs will continue until Trump is out of office
The idiots with the “sternly worded letter” comments are really starting to get tiring.
Apparently unless you respond disproportionately, use underhanded tactics, or start wars, your response is “weak”.
Building alliances across the world to create the largest trade network that ever existed, and then at some point leveraging it to be able to not give a fuck about what kind of hissyfit the cheeto in chief has this week seems to not figure into that kind of thinking.
By [**Newsroom**](https://www.turkiyetoday.com/author/newsroom)
March 12, 2026 03:41 PM GMT+03:00
**T**he European Union on Thursday warned it would “respond firmly” to any violation of a key tariff agreement by the United States after President Donald Trump’s administration announced new trade investigations.
The probes focus on global overproduction and the import of goods made with forced labor, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Wednesday.
European Commission spokesperson Olof Gill said Brussels would seek clarification from Washington about how the new investigation would affect the EU-U.S. agreement reached last year.
“We will be seeking further clarity from the US on how the opening of this Section 301 investigation would interact with” the EU-U.S. deal, Gill told reporters.
“The commission would respond firmly and proportionately to any breach of the joint statement commitments,” he added.
# EU rejects responsibility for global overcapacity
Gill said the European Union shares Washington’s concerns about structural overcapacity in the global economy.
“However, the sources of such overcapacity are well identified, and they do not lie in Europe,” he said.
# Tariff deal faces uncertainty after court ruling
The future of the EU-U.S. tariff agreement has been cast into doubt following a February ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that Trump lacks authority to impose tariffs under a 1977 law.
Trump later imposed new tariffs of 10% on imported goods.
Despite the move, the EU said it received assurances from Washington that the tariff agreement would still be respected.
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The European Commission said the bloc remains committed to the deal and expects the United States to do the same.
“We have not received any indication that the U.S. administration intends to deviate from those commitments,” Gill said.
Lawmakers in the European Parliament’s trade committee are expected to vote next week on removing tariffs on U.S. industrial goods—a key step toward implementing the EU’s side of the agreement.
It feels like we’re back in 2018, but with the EU’s $18 trillion single market finally using its weight as real leverage. After the US Supreme Court ruled the initial tariffs illegal last month, the immediate pivot to new Section 301 probes on $1.2 trillion in imports shows that “strategic autonomy” has shifted from a buzzword to a survival requirement. With EU exports to the US hitting $605.7 billion last year, there is simply no room to let the Turnberry Deal collapse under new investigations.
It would be nice if this was just part of the stalling tactic to draw out ratification of the “deal” with *kilometers* of red tape, whilst continuing to try and prevent Washington from levying any insane extra taxes on their consumers that’d cripple our exports.
“Keep talking and nobody ~~explodes~~gets tariffed”.
Alas, I’m beginning to think our reps are ultimately still going to bend over backwards to placate the Man in the White House, regardless of how many times he’s proven you can trust him about as much as you can trust Putin.
Does anyone really believe that the EU has any real bite?
From tariffs to starting a war that mostly hurts EU with soaring energy prices and now removing sanctions from Russia, the US has shown they couldn’t care less about the EU.
EU has not done anything.
Can someone please tell me if I’m wrong? I’m an outsider just curious.
Why does the EU want this shit deal so bad? They should just say he broke the terms of the deal and scrap the lot.
He’s got 2.5 years left, and he’s tied up with his isreali iran crap.
Just let the “deal” die. And next time he tries to coerce, respond decisively and robustly.
We should normalize complete and immediate cancellation of any and all treaties once either party violates them. Sticking to agreed terms unilaterally doesn’t make any sense when dealing with emotionally erratic people like trump, who thinks breaking a deal IS the true deal.