Trump Announces Tariffs On 8 Countries Until U.S. Controls Greenland | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump introduced Saturday that a number of European international locations would face a tariff on all items despatched to the United States till the U.S. secures a deal for “the Complete and Total purchase” of Greenland.

“World Peace is at stake!” he wrote on Truth Social, including that each China and Russia “want” Greenland, which is now a territory of Denmark.

“They currently have two dogsleds as protection, one added recently,” he quipped.

“Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Finland have journeyed to Greenland, for purposes unknown,” he continued, citing international locations which have despatched troops to Greenland amid Trump’s repeated threats of a U.S. takeover.

He then declared that starting Feb. 1, the international locations he listed can be going through a “10% Tariff on any and all goods sent to the United States,” which shall be elevated to 25% in June.

“This Tariff will be due and payable until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland,” he wrote.

The put up comes a day after Trump publicly mulled over utilizing tariffs to punish international locations that didn’t assist his Greenland seize.

“I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security,” he stated Friday at an unrelated occasion on rural well being care.

Earlier this month, Trump instructed reporters on the White House the U.S. would “do something in Greenland, whether they like it or not.”

He additionally said, “I would like to make a deal the easy way but if we don’t do it the easy way, we’re going to do it the hard way.”