{"id":298494,"date":"2026-09-17T12:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T08:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=298494"},"modified":"2026-09-17T12:32:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T08:32:38","slug":"trump-has-threatened-to-impose-very-serious-tariffs-on-eu-because-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/298494\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump has threatened to impose &#8220;very serious tariffs&#8221; on EU because of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>US President Donald Trump has threatened to cut trade with the EU or impose &ldquo;very serious tariffs&rdquo; after the bloc proposed to make Canada its first ever &ldquo;associate member&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>He called the prospect of Canada joining the EU &ldquo;laughable&rdquo; and called Canada a &ldquo;terrible trade partner&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If it&rsquo;s a good intention, that&rsquo;s fine. If it&rsquo;s a bad intention, we&rsquo;ll put very heavy tariffs on Europe,&rdquo; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>His comments came after the EU Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen announced Canada and the EU would build on their existing free trade agreement, known as CETA, with a broader &ldquo;Alliance for the Future&rdquo; aimed at creating &ldquo;a common prosperity and economic security space&rdquo;.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has threatened to cut trade with the EU or impose &ldquo;very serious tariffs&rdquo; after the bloc proposed to make Canada its first ever &ldquo;associate member&rdquo;. He called the prospect of Canada joining the EU &ldquo;laughable&rdquo; and called Canada a &ldquo;terrible trade partner&rdquo;. &ldquo;If it&rsquo;s a good intention, that&rsquo;s fine. If it&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298495,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298494\/revisions\/298495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}