{"id":34684,"date":"2018-06-03T07:26:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T12:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34684"},"modified":"2018-06-03T07:26:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T12:26:19","slug":"just-days-left-to-avoid-trade-war-france-says-as-g-7-condemn-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34684","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Just Days Left&#8221; To Avoid Trade War France Says, As G-7 Condemn Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-06-02\/just-days-left-avoid-trade-war-france-says-g-7-condemn-trump-tariffs\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">&#8220;Just Days Left&#8221; To Avoid Trade War France Says, As G-7 Condemn Trump<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1164\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1164\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-2077925_22=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-2077925_22=\"1\">\n<footer class=\"node__meta\">\n<div class=\"submission-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 a2a_default_style\" data-a2a-icon-color=\"#222\">\n<div>With Trump refusing to back down and slapping Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from the EU, Canada and Mexico, which were enacted at midnight on June 1, the G-7 meeting taking place in Whistler, also known as Canada&#8217;s Davos, ended up being one big &#8220;bash America&#8221; show, with French finance minister Bruno Le Maire saying that &#8220;<strong>it has been a tense and tough G-7. I would say it has been far more a G-6 plus one than a G-7<\/strong>&#8221; pointing at the US, which on Friday he said was &#8220;alone against everyone and running the risk of economic destabilization.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img\" role=\"group\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/g7%20whistler.jpg?itok=FFGMUsL7\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/g7%20whistler.jpg?itok=FFGMUsL7\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/g7%20whistler.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/g7%20whistler.jpg?itok=FFGMUsL7 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"f75ed86a-c11f-41ec-bb76-967dc8a8fca8\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>Morneau, third left, and fellow finances chiefs gather in Canada <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Seemingly unable to grasp that Trump would dare break with decades of politically correct tradition and turn his back on allies who continue to impose tariffs on US exports yet balk when the US retaliates in kind, Le Maire said on Saturday that Washington has just a few days to take urgent measures if it wants to avoid unleashing a full-scale trade war with its European allies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We still have a few days to avoid an escalation. We still have a few days to take the necessary steps to avoid a trade war between the EU and the US, and to avoid a trade war among G7 members,&#8221;\u00a0 Le Maire told journalists after the conclusion of the G-7 meeting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-g7-summit-finance-lemaire\/u-s-isolated-at-g7-meeting-over-tariffs-french-minister-idUSKCN1IX5EI?il=0\">according to Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img\" role=\"group\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/le%20maire.jpg?itok=mXTswqO6\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/le%20maire.jpg?itok=mXTswqO6\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/le%20maire.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/le%20maire.jpg?itok=mXTswqO6 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"325\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"deba8b3f-573e-4e85-b419-f0d986bca2e0\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He added that it is up to the US to make the first move:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;The ball is in the camp of the United States, it is up to the American administration to take the right decisions to smooth the situation and to alleviate the difficulties.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Just Days Left&#8221; To Avoid Trade War France Says, As G-7 Condemn Trump With Trump refusing to back down and slapping Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from the EU, Canada and Mexico, which were enacted at midnight on June 1, the G-7 meeting taking place in Whistler, also known as Canada&#8217;s Davos, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[103,7844,284,4349,517,805,3222,827,4318],"class_list":["post-34684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-canada","tag-donald-trump","tag-european-union","tag-g7","tag-mexico","tag-trade","tag-trade-war","tag-united-states","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34685,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34684\/revisions\/34685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}