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Alex Kozul-Wright

Can the EU and NATO impose tariffs on India and China, as Trump wants?

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after stepping off Air Force One upon returning to Joint Base Andrews in Camp Springs, Maryland, the United States [File: Mandel Ngan/AFP]

US President Donald Trump has called on NATO and EU member states to hit China and India with tariffs of up to 100 percent to force Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine.

Trump, who previously pledged to end the conflict on “day one” of becoming president, made his demand during a meeting between United States and European Union officials last Tuesday. The move is seen as a way to try to expedite a peace deal between Moscow and Kyiv.

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