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Trump to tariffs on EU goods: Not looking for deal
Updated on May 23, 2025 – 10:01 pmReading time: 23 min.
US President Trump confirms his customs threat to the EU. Atomic energy in the USA is to be expanded. All developments in the news blog.
After the threat of punitive tariffs in the amount of 50 percent against goods from the European Union, US President Donald Trump is not very compromising. “I’m not looking for a deal,” he said in the US capital Washington. The United States had determined the deal, it sounds: tariffs of 50 percent. “But again: there is no customs if you build your factories here.”
If someone decides to build a factory in the United States, they are ready to talk about a “small delay”, Trump continued. You will see what happens, but he currently assumes that the threatened tariffs would come into force on June 1st.
US President Donald Trump announces that the planned custom of 25 percent will also apply to Apple products for Samsung and other smartphone manufacturers. Previously, Trump Apple threatened an inch of 25 percent on all iPhones sold in the United States but are not produced there. In the United States, more than 60 million cell phones are sold annually, but the country does not have its own smartphone production.
US President Donald Trump wants to promote the expansion of nuclear energy use. On Friday, he ordered that the nuclear supervisory authority should issue fewer regulations and that new licenses for reactors and power plants should issue faster. Trump wants the previously multi -year approval process to be reduced to 18 months. Among other things, the aim of the president is to cover the electricity requirements of the data centers for AI applications.
So far, the approval of a nuclear power plant in the United States has been over ten years. “This will turn back after over 50 years of over-regulation of an industry,” said US Interior Minister Doug Burgum. The president also ordered to revive uranium mining and the uranium enrichment, said a high-ranking government employee.
From Trump’s environment, it was said that during his second term – until January 2029 – new reactors were to be approved and built. The United States currently has 94 nuclear reactors in operation, which is the largest number worldwide. However, the Meilers are considered outdated. The average age is 42 years.
The Trump government forbids the renowned US University Harvard to accept foreign students. The university does not want to accept that. Read the whole article here.
US President Donald Trump brought into play on his social media platform Truth Social Customs against Apple-at least 25 percent. With these measures, he wants to prove the company if it does not move its production to the USA. He expects “the iPhones that are sold in the United States of America to be manufactured and built in the United States”.
