You wanna do this the easy way, or the hard way? She basically asks.
“We stand ready to negotiate with the US. Indeed, we have offered zero-for-zero tariffs for industrial goods as we have successfully done with many other trading partners,” the Commission president said on Monday afternoon.
“Because Europe is always ready for a good deal. So we keep it on the table. But we are also prepared to respond through countermeasures and defend our interests.”
Carrot or stick. Even Trump should be able to understand the choice laid out before him. Whether he cares is something else, being so disconnected from anything resembling reality or sanity.
What does “industrial goods” mean here?
Industrial goods is usually everything, but aggricultural goods (foods, animals etc). Usually that means everything from section 25 on for the HS code.
For the HS Code asection List click here
Edit: had to look up a link with the sections
