‘Trump called it liberation day, I call it inflation day’: EU parliament’s trade chief – video

The president of the European parliament’s international trade committee has said Trump’s declaration that the introduction of tariffs was ‘liberation day’ for the US would in reality be ‘inflation day’. Speaking at a press conference in Brussels, Bernd Lange said the US tariffs were unfair and warned that consumers and businesses would bear the cost. ‘It’s totally clear that these tariffs will increase prices in the United States and I guess also … in the European Union’

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