{"id":9945,"date":"2018-05-17T04:42:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T08:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=fb3582bf9640740aed5b1aaa1d08ba04"},"modified":"2018-05-17T04:42:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T08:42:47","slug":"eu-demands-an-end-to-trump-tariff-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/17\/eu-demands-an-end-to-trump-tariff-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"EU demands an end to Trump tariff threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOFIA, Bulgaria &#8212; The European Union is calling for an end to U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s threats to slap tariffs on EU steel exports as a new deadline looms for the duties to enter force.<\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that &#8220;it&#8217;s Europe&#8217;s economic sovereignty, and what we are demanding is that we are exempted without conditions or time limits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In March, Trump slapped tariffs of 25 per cent on steel imports and 10 per cent on imported aluminum, but has granted the EU a temporary exemption until June 1.<\/p>\n<p>Convinced the move breaks global trade rules, the EU has drawn up a list of &#8220;rebalancing&#8221; duties worth some 2.8 billion euros ($3.4 billion) to impose on U.S. products if it is not permanently excluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOFIA, Bulgaria &mdash; The European Union is calling for an end to U.S. President Donald Trump&rsquo;s threats to slap tariffs on EU steel exports as a new deadline looms for the duties to enter force. French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that &ldquo;it&rsquo;s Europe&rsquo;s economic sovereignty, and what we are demanding is that we are [&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\/9945"}],"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=9945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9965,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945\/revisions\/9965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}