Trump threatens 20 pct tariff on EU cars

By David Shepardson
Updated June 23 2018 - 7:01am, first published 6:59am

US President Donald Trump has threatened to escalate a trade war with Europe by imposing a 20 per cent tariff on all US imports of European Union-assembled cars, a month after the administration launched an investigation into whether car imports pose a national security threat.

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