The European Union approved tariffs to hit around €21 billion ($23.2 billion) of US goods in retaliation for the 25 percent duties President Donald Trump imposed last month on the bloc’s steel and aluminum exports.
A majority of the EU’s 27 member states on Wednesday voted in favor of the penalties, some of which will start to take effect in mid-April.
The tariffs will target politically sensitive American states and include products such as soybeans from Louisiana, home to House Speaker Mike Johnson, as well as diamonds, agricultural products, poultry, and motorcycles.
This development comes after China also retaliated against the 104 percent tariffs imposed on the country’s goods imported into the US, with Beijing slapping 84 percent levies on imports coming from America.
