Decisions regarding tariffs need to
be taken at a European level, Deputy Premier and Foreign
Minister Antonio Tajani said on Thursday, noting Italy would
discuss the issue within the EU to find the best possible
solutions to preserve "our interests in a transatlantic
relationship that must not deteriorate" while also safeguarding
"our interests and our companies".
"The responses to the issues related to tariffs are at a
European level" and "we will talk about it at a European level,
we will dialogue and we will try to find the best solutions
possible to safeguard our interests in a transatlantic
relationship that must not deteriorate", he said.
"However, we must preserve our interests and our companies and
find solutions that allow our realities to be competitive - we
have a strategy", he said.
"We have been working for months on the issue of tariffs" and
"we are moving forward, without turmoil but with determination
and strength to safeguard our companies - the government is
determined", Tajani concluded.
Meanwhile, Business and Made in Italy Minister Adolfo Urso said
on Thursday that "Italy is obviously concerned by an escalation
and a potential trade war because we are a great exporting
country", addressing a press conference after a European steel
summit in Paris, after he was asked about US President Donald
Trump's threat to introduce tariffs on European Union imports.
Urso recalled that "over the past few years Italy has become the
fourth exporting country in the world after Germany, China and
the US.
"We have a very positive trade balance with the US.
"Therefore, like other European countries and perhaps even more
than other European countries, we want to avoid an escalation
and a trade war", he said.
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