The EU needs "clarity" connected Donald Trump's intentions aft helium cancelled his planned levies against 8 countries implicit their stance connected Greenland, a elder lawmaker has told CNBC.
EU lawmakers person removed the menace of tariff countermeasures against the U.S. aft the U.S. president backed down.
Bernd Lange, a subordinate of the European Parliament and seat of EU-US commercialized relations connected its committee connected International trade, said the bloc inactive needs "greater clarity" connected Trump's intentions aft helium declared connected Truth Social helium had a "framework" of a woody betwixt the White House and NATO precocious Wednesday. Trump aboriginal told CNBC helium had "the conception of a deal."
"First of all, cipher knows precisely what the details of this alleged solution oregon woody are. We person to look to the details," Lange told CNBC by telephone connected Thursday morning.
"The determination astir specified a solution oregon woody should beryllium taken by Denmark and the radical successful Greenland, not betwixt 2 important men," helium said, referring to the discussions betwixt Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte astatine the World Economic Forum successful Davos.
"Let's spot what the improvement volition bring," helium added.
On Wednesday, European lawmakers suspended approval of the commercialized pact agreed past July betwixt the EU and U.S. aft Trump unveiled plans past play to deed 8 countries with caller import levies.
European leaders planned to sermon imaginable responses astatine an exigency acme successful Brussels aboriginal connected Thursday evening, including countermeasures connected immoderate 93 cardinal euros ($108 billion) worthy of U.S. imports that would person taken effect adjacent month.
But aft Trump canceled tariffs connected 8 European countries for opposing his bid to annex Greenland, saying helium had "the model of a aboriginal deal" implicit Greenland, tensions look to person eased.
Lange said the EU's countermeasures to tariffs were "not disconnected the table, but connected hold."
"It's wide that this database of countermeasures, which is inactive legally there, is present not coming into unit successful February, due to the fact that it seems that determination volition beryllium nary tariffs from the United States. So this volition beryllium enactment connected clasp arsenic well... possibly prolonged for immoderate months," helium said.
Despite Trump's evident climbdown, EU leaders are acceptable to propulsion up with their planned exigency acme later.
Lange said: "We volition look to the appraisal regarding this alleged Greenland solution, and secondly, we volition interaction our U.S. counterparts to get much clarity and information astir respecting the woody connected some sides."
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