{"id":16133,"date":"2025-04-07T20:10:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T20:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=16133"},"modified":"2025-04-07T21:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T21:01:42","slug":"european-union-offers-u-s-a-zero-for-zero-tariff-plan-to-avoid-a-trade-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=16133","title":{"rendered":"European Union Offers U.S. a \u2018Zero-for-Zero\u2019 Tariff Plan to Avoid a Trade War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/thestarnewsnetwork.com\/2025\/04\/07\/european-union-offers-u-s-a-zero-for-zero-tariff-plan-to-avoid-a-trade-war\/\">https:\/\/thestarnewsnetwork.com\/2025\/04\/07\/european-union-offers-u-s-a-zero-for-zero-tariff-plan-to-avoid-a-trade-war\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<h5>by Charlotte Hazard<\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The European Union on Monday proposed a \u2018zero-for-zero\u2019 tariff plan to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The offer was made by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (pictured above), following President Donald Trump last week placing a 20% tariff on the EU.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have offered zero-for-zero tariffs for industrial goods as we have successfully done with many other trading partners,\u201d Leyen said during a joint press conference with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store.<\/p>\n<p>She said that Europe has always been ready for a good deal regarding tariffs,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-offers-trump-removal-of-all-tariffs\/\">according to the news outlet Politico.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the EU\u2019s 27 trade ministers met in Luxembourg to discuss the U.S. measures and to come up with an alternative plan.<\/p>\n<p>The plan by the commission, which coordinates\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/eu-trade-policy\">EU trade policy<\/a>, is in specific response to Trump\u2019s earlier steel and aluminum tariffs rather than the broader, more-recently announced reciprocal levies,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/eu-seeks-unity-first-strike-back-trump-tariffs-2025-04-06\/\">according to Reuters<\/a>. But the consensus among the countries appears challenging, considering the leaders each have their own domestic considerations.<\/p>\n<p>Among the EU leaders who appear most eager to retaliate are French President Emmanuel Macron, who is calling Trump\u2019s tariffs \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/03\/fundamentally-wrong-european-leaders-condemn-trump-tariffs\">brutal and unfounded<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u2013 \u2013<\/p>\n<p><em>Charlotte Hazard is a reporter for Just the News.<br \/>\nPhoto \u201cUrsula von der Leyen\u201d by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/european_parliament\/\">European Parliament<\/a>. CC BY 2.0.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 1px;border: none;color: #000;background-color: #aaa\" \/>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.1;color: #aaa\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px\">Reprinted with permission from <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/world\/europe\/european-union-offers-us-zero-zero-tariff-plan-avoid-trade-war\">Just the News<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<hr style=\"height: 1px;border: none;color: #000;background-color: #aaa\" \/>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/thestarnewsnetwork.com\/2025\/04\/07\/european-union-offers-u-s-a-zero-for-zero-tariff-plan-to-avoid-a-trade-war\/\">European Union Offers U.S. a \u2018Zero-for-Zero\u2019 Tariff Plan to Avoid a Trade War<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/thestarnewsnetwork.com\">The Star News Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/thestarnewsnetwork.com\/2025\/04\/07\/european-union-offers-u-s-a-zero-for-zero-tariff-plan-to-avoid-a-trade-war\/ by Charlotte Hazard \u00a0 The European Union on Monday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":16046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-daily-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16134,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16133\/revisions\/16134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}