U.S. tells German car bosses it could abandon tariff threat: source
Reuters
Published Jul 05, 2018 06:49AM ET
U.S. tells German car bosses it could abandon tariff threat: source
BERLIN (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Germany told German car bosses that President Donald Trump could abandon threats to impose tariffs on cars imported from the European Union in exchange for concessions, an industry source said on Thursday.
German daily Handelsblatt reported Ambassador Richard Grenell told executives from Daimler (DE:DAIGn), Volkswagen (DE:VOWG_p) and BMW (DE:BMWG) on Wednesday that Trump would suspend tariff threats if the EU annulled duties on U.S. cars imported into the bloc.
Trump threatened last month to impose a 20-percent import tariff on all EU-assembled vehicles, which could upend the industry's current business model for selling cars in the United States.
German automotive trade body VDA said on Thursday it had repeatedly called for free and fair trade in talks with Ambassador Grenell.
"But it is clear that the negotiations are exclusively being held at a political level," it said in a statement.
It said suggestions about mutually removing tariffs and other trade barriers were positive signals.
Trump's protectionist trade policies, which also target Chinese imports, have raised fears of a full-blown and protracted trade war that threatens to damage the world economy.
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