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EU needs to keep calm in response to U.S. tariffs, Dutch minister says
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Posted on April 7, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 24, 2026
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on April 7, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 24, 2026
The EU should stay calm and negotiate with the U.S. over tariffs, according to Dutch Trade minister Reinette Klever, to avoid market escalation.
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - The EU will need to remain calm and proportionate in its response to U.S. trade tariffs and aim for negotiations, Dutch Trade minister Reinette Klever said on Monday.
"We need to get ourselves at the table with the Americans and see how we can lower these tariffs," Klever said before a meeting of EU trade ministers in Luxembourg.
"We need to remain calm and respond in a way that de-escalates. The stock markets right now show what will happen if we escalate straightaway. But we will be prepared to take countermeasures if needed to get the Americans at the table."
(Reporting by Bart Meijer; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)
The main topic is the EU's response to U.S. trade tariffs, as discussed by Dutch Trade minister Reinette Klever.
The Dutch minister suggests that the EU should remain calm and aim for negotiations with the U.S. to lower tariffs.
The EU is prepared to take countermeasures if necessary to bring the U.S. to the negotiating table.
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