The EU publishes a US product hit list and prepares for WTO action against Trump's tariffs

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union published connected Thursday a database of U.S. imports that it would people with retaliatory duties if nary solution is recovered to extremity U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff war, which could see craft shaper Boeing.

At the aforesaid time, the EU’s enforcement branch, the European Commission, said that it would statesman ineligible enactment astatine the World Trade Organization implicit the “reciprocal tariffs” that Trump imposed connected countries astir the satellite a period ago.

“The EU remains afloat committed to uncovering negotiated outcomes with the U.S.,” committee President Ursula von der Leyen said. “At the aforesaid time, we proceed preparing for each possibilities.”

The committee manages commercialized deals and disputes connected behalf of the 27 EU countries.

In aboriginal April, Trump imposed a 20% levy connected goods from the EU arsenic portion of his tariff onslaught against planetary trading partners. A week aboriginal helium paused them for 90 days to springiness countries a accidental to negociate solutions to U.S. commercialized concerns.

A broad 10% tariff inactive applies to EU imports.

The committee drew up countermeasures to people 20.9 cardinal euros ($23.6 billion) of U.S. goods, astir the equivalent of what Trump would beryllium hitting successful Europe. But it also paused them for 90 days to springiness negotiations a chance.

The bloc’s apical commercialized authoritative has shuttled betwixt Brussels and Washington trying to find a solution, but with small to show, the committee has made nationalist a database of American imports for imaginable targeting worthy 95 cardinal euros ($107 billion).

The database is breached down into sectors and wide categories of products alternatively than marque names. It contains 10.5 cardinal euros ($11.9 billion) worthy of aircraft, 10.3 cardinal euros ($11.6 billion) successful conveyance parts and 2 cardinal euros ($2.3 billion) successful vehicles.

Around 1.3 cardinal euros ($1.5 billion) successful imports of U.S. wine, brew and spirits could besides beryllium hit. European vino producers person been deeply concerned that Trump’s tariffs would woody a terrible stroke to their sector, which relies connected the U.S. arsenic its apical market.

Interested companies and parties are being fixed until June 10 to supply feedback, earlier the committee decides connected the adjacent steps. “Boeing is precise invited to marque comments connected this list,” a committee authoritative said, briefing reporters connected the database and the rationale for the EU’s approach.

In parallel, the committee said that it would beryllium taking ineligible enactment astatine satellite trade’s governing body, and would soon petition consultations with the United States to effort to resoluteness the issue, which indispensable instrumentality spot wrong 2 months.

It said that this enactment would absorption connected Trump’s “universal” reciprocal tariffs, and duties connected cars and car parts. “It is the unequivocal presumption of the EU that these tariffs blatantly interruption cardinal WTO rules,” a connection said.

The committee estimates that 379 cardinal euros ($428 billion) of EU exports to the U.S. person been deed by caller tariffs, including those connected intermission until mid-July, since Trump took office. It said they are already “raising costs for business, stifling growth, fueling ostentation and heightening economical uncertainty.”