Hours before President Trump met with Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, on July 25, he tweeted: “Tariffs are the greatest! Either a country which has treated the United States unfairly on Trade negotiates a fair deal, or it gets hit with Tariffs.”
Before the meeting, the EU vowed to play hardball with the United States. It threatened that it would slap tariffs on $294 billion of U.S. exports if Trump imposed tariffs on cars and car parts made in the EU.
