In the Ministry of Economics of Germany stated that the EU is ready to reduce import duties on cars from the US

He said this in an interview with Welt am Sonntag.

"We have declared our readiness to reduce duties on important industrial products to zero ... Thus, the reproaches that American duties on cars are lower than European ones would have been refuted," TASS quoted him as saying.

He also noted that Europeans do not share the position of US President Donald Trump, who thinks that new jobs are best created through special trade measures.

“The German automotive industry has invested a lot of money in the American market,” he added.

At the end of August 2018, American leader Donald Trump said that the European Union had made the United States a “not good enough” proposal for car duties.

Political analyst of the international monitoring organization CIS-EMO Stanislav Byshok in an interview with FBA “Economy Today” appreciated the statement made by European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström that the EU is ready to respond to possible new US car duties.