commerce secretary wilbur ross says everyone's going to get over this in jew time while saying washington will enforce punitive import levies on europe canada and mexico european commission president john ford says the bloc will impose countermeasures calling the situation a bad day for world trade president donald trump has been threatening for weeks to impose tariffs of twenty five percent on imported steel and ten percent on al a minyan citing national security concerns it exempted the european union until june first and there were hopes that deadline would be extended for midnight tonight e.u. metal exports to the u.s. will most likely become uncompetitive under the new tariffs the e.u. is drawing up a list of u.s. products like how the davidson motorbikes levi's jeans and bourbon whiskey which is set to face a penalty tariff here and just at a time that i heard levi's were coming back into fashion let's talk to claire richardson about well not about that but at these tariffs in general she's standing