"The EU is an ally of the United States, so free.

The idea is the European Trade Commissioner, she tweeted Malmstrom Cecilia, written shortly after the president signed the order and Donald Trump's new tax on aluminum and steel imports 8.3 today.

If you are in the Malmstrom, the European Union (EU) is the closest ally and important trading partners of the United States. Therefore, the EU should state the duty-free import of aluminum and steel in the North American market.

"The EU is a close ally of the United States, we continue to believe that the EU should be exempt from tax measures, the new me will be a better understanding of the ministerial meeting of the problem, the United States trade representative Robert Lighthizer Malmstrom in Brussels on Saturday," she wrote.

You Lighthizer, responsible for the negotiations from a new tariff exemption to the national level, you will see Malmstrom and Minister of the economy, trade and industry of Japan Hiroshige Seko 10.3 in Brussels to discuss the excess iron status.

Today the president signed the order, the official trump 8.3 pressure on the import tax of 25% aluminum and steel 10%. Canada and Mexico are exempt from tax measures. At the same time, the U.S. government announced that it will open the possibility, for different countries in the "alternative", if these countries want to prove their duty-free products will not threaten US National safety.