The German government continues to seek a solution at the negotiating table in the face of impending US punitive tariffs on European cars. „This is the right way from our perspective,“ said government spokesman Steffen Seibert today in Berlin. He referred to ongoing talks between the EU Commission and the US on trade issues.
According to concurring media reports, the US Department of Commerce had given President Donald Trump an assessment of whether importing cars and parts would affect the country’s national security. German Chancellor Angela Merkel had criticized over the weekend that the ministry had obviously come to this conclusion, which was frightening.
Seibert said that the Federal Government has not yet received the content of the US Department of Commerce investigation. If the Americans introduce such tariffs, that will be analyzed very carefully in the EU. In general, trade barriers have negative consequences for the economies
