Danish officials react to tariff threat: We will not 'bow down' to Trump's 'bullying tactics' [View all]
Source: The Hill
01/17/26 1:53 PM ET
Denmark leaders are refusing to “back down” to the Trump administration after President Trump announced plans Saturday to impose new tariffs on the country and seven of its allies next month amid his push to acquire Greenland. Danish lawmaker Pelle Dragsted, in a translated post on social platform X, urged European leaders to demonstrate “solidarity and resistance” to Trump’s import taxes.
“Trump must not be allowed to divide us,” Dragsted continued. “The EU must respond united and hit back hard. Go hard after the tech oligarchs in Trump’s inner circle. Enough is enough!” Trump said his administration will impose a 10 percent tariff on all goods imported to the U.S. from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland, starting Feb. 1.
“We have subsidized Denmark, and all of the Countries of the European Union, and others, for many years by not charging them Tariffs, or any other forms of remuneration,” he wrote in a post on Truth Social. “Now, after Centuries, it is time for Denmark to give back — World Peace is at stake!” The president also noted that once the 10 percent tariff rate goes into effect, it will remain until the “purchase of Greenland” is negotiated and could rise to 25 percent on June 1 if a deal is not struck by then.
Danish Chamber of Commerce CEO Brian Mikkelsen rebuffed the threat, saying, “Trump’s farce continues.” “The American president is once again using tariffs as a threat,” Mikkelsen wrote on X in a translated post. “As so many times before, it is damaging to confidence in world trade and damaging to the American and European economies.”
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/international/5694216-denmark-response-trump-tariff-threat-greenland/
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