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President Donald Trump introduced Friday he was elevating tariffs on European automobiles to 25%, citing the European Union’s noncompliance with the U.S.-EU commerce deal.
“I’m happy to announce that, based mostly on the very fact the European Union is just not complying with our absolutely agreed to Commerce Deal, subsequent week I can be growing Tariffs charged to the European Union for Automobiles and Vehicles coming into the US. The Tariff can be elevated to 25%,” Trump wrote Friday morning in a Fact Social put up.
He did, nonetheless, point out that he would drop the tariffs if European firms agreed to fabricate their automobiles within the U.S.
“It’s absolutely understood and agreed that, in the event that they produce Automobiles and Vehicles in U.S.A. Crops, there can be NO TARIFF,” Trump wrote.
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President Donald Trump speaks to the press earlier than departing the White Home for Florida on Could 1, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu through Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
He reiterated the purpose whereas chatting with reporters on the White Home Friday.
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“We raised the tariffs on automobiles coming in from the European Union as a result of the European Union was not adhering to the commerce deal now we have,” Trump advised reporters.
“So, based mostly on that now, after they construct their crops on which they’re spending over $100 billion for international locations, not simply the Union, however when these crops open, there will not be any tariffs.”
Automobiles are loaded onto the automobile provider ship Polaris Liberty on the automotive terminal on Aug. 11, 2025, in Bremerhaven, Germany. The U.S. will apply a 25% tariff to all European autos, U.S. President Donald Trump introduced Could 1, 2026. (Focke Strangmann/Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
He additionally touted ongoing U.S. manufacturing of automobile crops.
“We’ve got proper now in the US over $100 billion of automobile crops being constructed. That is a file. We have by no means had something prefer it, from all international locations — Japan, South Korea, each, by the way in which, Canada, Mexico — they’re all constructing crops in the US. However the European Union was not adhering to the deal that we made,” Trump mentioned.
President Donald Trump walks with Ford Motor Firm Govt Chair Invoice Ford Jr. and CEO Jim Farley as they tour the Ford River Rouge Advanced on Jan. 13, 2026, in Dearborn, Mich. (Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
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The U.S. and EU reached a landmark commerce deal in July that noticed the President comply with decrease tariff charges on EU automobiles and vehicles from its earlier 27.5% to fifteen%.
