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Trump Says ‘Tariffs are the Greatest’ Prior to Meeting with EU

<p>President Donald Trump is meeting with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Wednesday and has made it clear that more tariffs could be imposed in the future&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Tariffs are the greatest&excl; Either a country which has treated the United States unfairly on Trade negotiates a fair deal&comma; or it gets hit with Tariffs&period; It&rsquo&semi;s as simple as that &&num;8211&semi; and everybody&rsquo&semi;s talking&excl; Remember&comma; we are the &ldquo&semi;piggy bank&rdquo&semi; that&rsquo&semi;s being robbed&period; All will be Great&excl;&&num;8221&semi; tweeted Trump Tuesday morning&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The EU trade surplus with the U&period;S&period; is about &dollar;150 Billion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;Countries that have treated us unfairly on trade for years are all coming to Washington to negotiate&period; This should have taken place many years ago but&comma; as the saying goes&comma; better late than never&excl;&rdquo&semi; tweeted Trump&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The E&period;U&period; is already displeased with the recent 10 percent tariff placed on aluminum imports and 25 percent on steel imports&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After&comma; the E&period;U&period; slapped tariffs on American imports like bourbon&comma; orange juice&comma; and more&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Trump is now saying that the U&period;S&period; may also put a 20 percent tariff on all imported European-made cars&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The European Commission has said that the meeting Wednesday with Trump isn&&num;8217&semi;t going to involve negotiations but will be more of a dialogue&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;I do not wish to enter into a discussion about mandates&comma; offers because there are no offers&comma;&rdquo&semi; said a spokesman&comma; as reported by R<em>euters&period;<&sol;em> &ldquo&semi;This is a discussion&comma; it is a dialogue and it is an opportunity to talk and to stay engaged in dialogue&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to Cecilia Malmstrom&comma; the European Union trade commissioner&comma; Juncker is hoping &ldquo&semi;to de-escalate the present situation and prevent it from worsening&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After Trump&&num;8217&semi;s last meeting with Juncker at the NATO session earlier in the month&comma; Trump called the European Commission President a &&num;8220&semi;brutal killer&comma;&&num;8221&semi; meaning he is &ldquo&semi;a tough negotiator&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Author&&num;8217&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> This is an important summit and Trump is issuing a warning with these tweets&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s all part of his strategy&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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