How have the EU and Canada reacted to Trump’s latest tariffs?

CGTN Europe

The president of the European Commission has promised proportional counter measures against the U.S. after Donald Trump imposed 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports.  Canada's Prime Minister has vowed to stand up for his country.  CGTN’s Ross Cullen tells us more

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00:00Well hinting but pretty strong measures in terms of the response from the

00:05Canadian Prime Minister, the outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying

00:09that these are unjustified unacceptable measures from the United States and the

00:13President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, both leaders here

00:17in Paris in the Grand Palais for the AI Action Summit, she has been saying also

00:22that these will not go without a response, that there will be strong and

00:26proportionate measures in response being deployed by the European Union.

00:31There has been a lot of reaction that really seems to be the position of

00:35Western allies in Europe and for example Canada as well. Every day almost since he

00:41retook office on the 20th of January Donald Trump has been announcing sudden

00:45measures, unpredictable measures and Europe has been having to react

00:50almost on a daily basis to the constant stream of news which is upsetting

00:55regular patterns for example that we've seen established in Europe before. This

01:00news that's been coming out of the Trump administration.

01:04US Vice President J.D. Vance has delivered his keynote speech at that

01:09artificial intelligence conference against this backdrop of these trade

01:15tensions. What did he have to say?

01:20Well he said quote excessive regulation of the AI sector could kill a

01:25transformative sector just as it's taking off. He said AI systems developed

01:29in America will be free from ideological bias. He went on to say he does not want

01:34to see AI being used by authoritarian states for censorship. He thinks it

01:39should be open, big tech, little tech. Really though he was reigning against the

01:44excessive regulatory framework in his opinion that he thinks for example the

01:48European Union will want to impose on artificial intelligence. He was speaking

01:53here a little bit earlier and we can listen in now to what he had to say.

01:59We believe that excessive regulation of the AI sector could kill a transformative

02:04industry just as it's taking off and we'll make every effort to encourage

02:09pro-growth AI policies. We feel very strongly that AI must remain free

02:14from ideological bias and that American AI will not be co-opted into a tool for

02:19authoritarian censorship.

02:24Yes we've seen that comment there from JD Vance. He was here at the AI summit

02:28and then after that he has been holding a working lunch with Emmanuel Macron,

02:32chance to discuss the Middle East, chance to discuss the war in Ukraine and other

02:36issues outside the world of artificial intelligence. Many other leaders here, a

02:41lot of them speaking about AI, but as you touched on in your first question Jamie

02:45of course there's always geopolitics and so aside from the AI they are also

02:49discussing those trade tensions resulting in the measures being

02:53announced by Donald Trump.

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