Trump: Handelskrig är bra - Strafftull på stål och aluminium

“China apparently has no intention of changing its unfair practices related to the acquisition of American intellectual property and technology,” Mr. Trump said in a statement. “Rather than altering those practices, it is now threatening United States companies, workers, and farmers who have done nothing wrong,” he added, calling China’s response “unacceptable.”

The president left little doubt that the United States would continue to hit back even harder if China counters, adding tariffs to another $200 billion worth of Chinese goods. All told, the Trump administration is threatening to impose tariffs on as much as $450 billion worth of goods, including an earlier round — a sum nearly as large as the total value of goods China sent the United States last year, which was $505.6 billion.

Richard Grenell will present a proposal from Germany's leading automakers, calling for doing away with all import tariffs for cars between the European Union and the U.S.
That would mean scrapping the EU's 10% tax on auto imports from the U.S. and other countries and the 2.5% duty on auto imports in the U.S., according to Dow Jones.
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Grenell held meetings with the CEOs of Daimler, BMW and Volkswagen, which operate plants in the U.S.
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The Europeans reportedly also want a 25% U.S. tax on imports of light trucks--pickup trucks, sport-utility vehicles, and big vans--scrapped.
That could alienate U.S. auto workers, a core constituency for Trump in the midterms this fall.

"– Anläggningen i Charleston etablerar USA som vår tredje hemmamarknad, säger Volvo Cars vd Håkan Samuelsson"

"Fabriken har kostat Volvo närmare 10 miljarder kronor och ska anställa cirka 4000 personer under de kommande åren."