英语：欧盟“准备好与特朗普就关税协议进行谈判”

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Source: EU ‘ready to negotiate’ with Trump on tariff deal – Washington Examiner

欧盟委员会主席乌尔苏拉·冯德莱恩表示，欧洲大陆已准备好与唐纳德·特朗普总统进行谈判，并提出“零对零”关税方案。欧盟正面临 20% 的“对等关税”，这是特朗普上周作为全面关税的一部分对欧盟征收的。特朗普的贸易战导致投资者对不确定性感到恐慌，全球金融市场纷纷暴跌。冯德莱恩在与挪威首相约纳斯·加尔·斯托雷一起举行的新闻发布会上说，“我们已经对工业品提出了零对零关税，就像我们与许多其他贸易伙伴成功做到的那样。因为欧洲总是愿意达成一项好协议。所以我们把它放在谈判议程上。”她说，“我们随时准备与美国谈判。”然而，冯德莱恩并没有排除报复，她表示，“我们也准备通过反制措施作出回应，捍卫我们的利益。” 她还宣布成立一个新的“工作组”，以监测关税对全球贸易的影响。她说，“我们还将保护自己免受贸易转移带来的间接影响。为此，我们将成立一个‘进口监测工作组。我们会研究我们过去和现在的进口情况，以及某种产品或某个行业的进口是否突然激增，我们需要采取行动。” 欧盟贸易专员马罗斯·塞夫科维奇另外指出，零对零协议可能涵盖汽车行业和所有其他工业品，如化学品和药品，特朗普将这些产品免于征收“对等”关税。在讨论跨大西洋贸易和投资伙伴关系时，美国和欧盟几乎达成取消大约 10 年的工业关税。然而，该计划在特朗普第一届政府期间被否决了。预计欧盟 27 个成员国的代表将于周三就该项关税法案进行投票。

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the continent is ready to negotiate with President Donald Trump, offering a “zero-for-zero” tariff scheme.

The European Union is facing 20% “reciprocal tariffs,” which Trump imposed on it as part of his across-the-board tariffs last week. Financial markets across the world have tanked as Trump’s trade war has caused investors to panic with uncertainty.

“We have offered zero-for-zero tariffs for industrial goods as we have successfully done with many other trading partners. Because Europe is always ready for a good deal. So we keep it on the table,” von der Leyen said at a press conference alongside Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store.

“We stand ready to negotiate with the U.S.,” she said.

However, von der Leyen did not rule out retaliation, saying, “We are also prepared to respond through countermeasures and defend our interests.”

She also announced the creation of a new “task force” to monitor changes in global commerce due to the tariffs.

“We will also protect ourselves against indirect effects through trade diversion. For this purpose, we will set up an ‘Import Surveillance Task Force,’” she said. “We look at what are the historical imports that we have and had and (whether) there is any specific surge all of a sudden of a certain product or in a certain sector that we have to act on.”

EU Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic separately noted the zero-for-zero deal could cover the automobile industry and all other industrial goods, such as chemicals and pharmaceuticals, which Trump exempted from his “reciprocal” tariffs.

The United States and EU came close to scrapping industrial tariffs for about 10 years in their discussions of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. However, that plan was sunk by Trump during his first administration.

Representatives from the EU’s 27 member states are expected to vote on the wave of tariffs Wednesday.