EU and Mexico hit back at Trump's tariff threat

欧盟和墨西哥反击特朗普的关税威胁

Global News Podcast

2025-07-13

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The EU and Mexico criticise Donald Trump after he says he will impose 30% tariffs on their exports to the US. Also: why Nicaragua is replacing pavements with concrete, and the British habit of saying sorry.
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  • This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Julia McFarlane and in the early hours of Sunday the 13th of July, these are our main stories.

  • The European Union and Mexico have slammed President Trump's plan to impose 30% tariffs on their exports to the US from the beginning of August,

  • if trading deals can't be made in time.

  • A hospital in Southern Gaza says 24 Palestinians were killed near an aid distribution site on Friday.

  • Witnesses say Israeli troops fired on people trying to get food.

  • Meanwhile,

  • the family of a Palestinian American reportedly killed by Israeli settlers in the West Bank are calling on the US State Department to investigate his death.

  • Also in this podcast.

  • Somebody calculated that in the UK we say sorry 368 million times a day and it's not the same in other languages and other parts of the world.

  • Why are Brits always saying sorry?

  • The US president has said the EU and Mexico will face a 30% tariff starting next month,

  • ramping up pressure for deals in his trade wars.

  • Donald Trump said both sets of tariffs would come into effect on the 1st of August,

  • blaming the US trade deficit with the EU and Mexico's role in the flow of illicit drugs into the US.

  • The EU has been a frequent target of Trump's criticism.

  • Here he is speaking to the World Economic Forum back in January.

  • From the standpoint of America, the EU treats us very, very unfairly, very badly.

  • They have a large tax that we know about and a bad tax, and it's a very substantial one.

  • The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen,