{"id":35796,"date":"2025-03-12T07:52:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T07:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/eu-retaliates-against-trump-tariffs-with-e26bn-countermeasures\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T07:52:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T07:52:50","slug":"eu-retaliates-against-trump-tariffs-with-e26bn-countermeasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/eu-retaliates-against-trump-tariffs-with-e26bn-countermeasures\/","title":{"rendered":"EU retaliates against Trump tariffs with \u20ac26bn \u2018countermeasures\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Von der Leyen hits back at \u2018unjustified trade restrictions\u2019 after US metals levies come into force<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2025\/mar\/12\/trump-tariffs-steel-aluminium-aluminum-global-europe-business-live\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The European Union has announced it is launching \u20ac26bn (nearly \u00a322bn) of trade \u201ccountermeasures\u201d in retaliation to Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, escalating a global trade war.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission chief, Ursula von der Leyen, called the 25% levies on the metals coming into the US, which came into force at 4am GMT on Wednesday, \u201cunjustified trade restrictions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/12\/eu-retaliates-against-trump-tariffs-with-26bn-countermeasures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Von der Leyen hits back at \u2018unjustified trade restrictions\u2019 after US metals levies come into force Business live \u2013 latest updates The European Union has announced it is launching \u20ac26bn (nearly \u00a322bn) of trade \u201ccountermeasures\u201d in retaliation to Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, escalating a global trade war. The European Commission chief, &#8230; <a title=\"EU retaliates against Trump tariffs with \u20ac26bn \u2018countermeasures\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/eu-retaliates-against-trump-tariffs-with-e26bn-countermeasures\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about EU retaliates against Trump tariffs with \u20ac26bn \u2018countermeasures\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}