Trump’s announcement puts the 27-nation bloc on the trade naughty step along with major economies such as China, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. His move threw up U.S. trade barriers unseen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Joly said Trump’s goal was to do “a global reset on trade,” which had started with Canada.
“We buy more from the U.S. than the U.K., France, China and Japan combined,” Joly told reporters. “When you treat your best client, the way we’ve been treated … it means that you want fundamentally to change the way you’re operating.”
She added that tariffs would ultimately be a tax on the American people and urged Europeans to “take that message” to U.S. citizens in order to influence the U.S. administration.
