{"id":8006,"date":"2018-05-01T01:58:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=666ea64361c4ac148d72e2b2a4c22308"},"modified":"2018-05-01T01:58:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T05:58:00","slug":"germany-expects-permanent-eu-exemption-from-us-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/01\/germany-expects-permanent-eu-exemption-from-us-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany expects permanent EU exemption from US tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN &#8212; Germany says it is aware of the U.S. postponement of a decision on imposing tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum from the European Union for 30 days, but continues to expect &#8220;a permanent exemption.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a statement Tuesday that Germany as part of the EU will now &#8220;discuss how to continue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The statement says, &#8220;the trans-Atlantic, economic relations are of great importance for both sides. Neither the EU nor the U.S. can have an interest in an escalation of their trade tensions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It added that, &#8220;rather, both sides would profit from a further deepening of their trade relations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump slapped tariffs of 25 per cent on steel imports and 10 per cent on aluminum imports in March but excluded the EU and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN &mdash; Germany says it is aware of the U.S. postponement of a decision on imposing tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum from the European Union for 30 days, but continues to expect &ldquo;a permanent exemption.&rdquo; A spokeswoman for Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a statement Tuesday that Germany as part of the EU [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8012,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006\/revisions\/8012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}