The EU will offer to reduce tariffs for the import of American cars as part of an agreement with the aim of avoiding a trade war with the new US President Donald Trump, FT reports.

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The head of the European Parliament trade committee Bernd Lange said that the EU is ready to reduce its 10 percent import tax to the level of 2.5%levied to the United States.

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According to him, the EU will offer to buy more liquefied natural gas and military equipment from the United States, and will also look for opportunities to reduce car tariffs.

The EU hopes to avoid a destructive trade war, finding ways to reduce the surplus in trade with the United States, which Trump often calls the cause of its punitive measures. In the first time Trump in the White House, Brussels also reduced tariffs for some goods from the United States, which limited the trade dispute.

The EU automotive industry supports such a step, FT was told by Brussels officials. The sector is afraid that Trump will fulfill its threat to introduce tariffs.

Reducing EU tariffs for cars will also be applied to China and other countries that are members of the WTO. EU officials believe that imports from China will not increase sharply, given that the Union has already introduced tariffs of up to 35% of Chinese electric vehicles after the investigation against "

EU officials said that the key countries of car manufacturers, including Germany, were consulted, and Berlin, as expected, would not oppose this step.

In 2022, the EU exported 738,436 cars in the United States in the amount of 37.4 billion euros, and imported only 271,476 cars from the States in the amount of 8.7 billion euros.

At the same time, Langa warned: if negotiations are in place, the EU will hit in response with "

This week, FT wrote that the European Commission is preparing for the first time to apply the so -called anti -coercion tool created after the first term of Trump to combat countries using economic pressure to obtain political changes.

Lange believes that Trump is most likely using tariffs to make the EU weaken regulation and remove taxes from companies such as Meta, X and Google.

Therefore, the EU is inclined to a new tool that can be used to strike on large technological companies.

To deploy a tool for combating forced, it will be necessary for about six months, since the EU needs to calculate the damage to your industries and enlist the support of most member countries.

But, according to Lange, the Government of the EU countries drew attention to the fact that the ambulance of Canada and Mexico to 25 percent tariffs of the United States ultimately prompted Trump to delay the action.

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