Donald Trump is due to make his tariff announcement, which he has styled as U.S. “Liberation Day,” at 4 p.m. in Washington D.C. That’s 10 p.m. in Brussels.Win McNamee/Getty Images

EU to bundle response to Trump’s tariffs – POLITICO

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BRUSSELS — The European Commission said it would respond in one strike to President Donald Trump’s new auto and reciprocal tariffs, on top of its answer to U.S. steel and aluminum duties already in force.

“There would be two [responses]. There will be the first response to the steel and aluminum tariffs from the U.S. And there will be a second response that clusters together everything else,” said Olof Gill, the Commission’s spokesperson for trade.

“The first is going through the internal process … And the second, as I mentioned, will be issued after the expected announcements from Washington later today,” Gill said on Wednesday.