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Posted on July 12, 2025
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Add as preferred source on GoogleUS plans a 30% tariff on EU goods, alarming Dutch PM Dick Schoof who calls for a united EU response. The tariffs could disrupt trade predictability.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The U.S. announcement it will impose a 30% tariff on EU goods from August 1st is "concerning" and not the way forward, Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof said on social media platform X on Saturday.
"The European Commission can count on our full support. As the EU we must remain united and resolute in pursuing an outcome with the United States that is mutually beneficial," he said.
Dutch State Secretary for Foreign Trade, Hanneke Boerma, in a post on X, said: "Businesses on both sides of the ocean need predictability and lower, not higher, tariffs".
(Reporting by Charlotte Van Campenhout, Editing by Sharon Singleton and Peter Graff)
Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof described the US announcement of a 30% tariff on EU goods as 'concerning' and not the way forward.
He stated that the European Commission can count on the Netherlands' full support and emphasized the need for the EU to remain united in pursuing a mutually beneficial outcome with the US.
Dutch State Secretary Hanneke Boerma mentioned that businesses on both sides of the ocean need predictability and called for lower, not higher, tariffs.
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