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Trump threatens tariffs if EU doesn’t buy more oil and gas from US

US President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to slap tariffs on several of Washington's top trading partners [File: Brian Snyder/Reuters]

Donald Trump has threatened to levy tariffs against the European Union if the bloc does not buy more oil and gas from the United States, in the latest economic warning from the US president-elect before his inauguration next month.

In a brief post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said he told the EU “that they must make up their tremendous deficit with the United States by the large scale purchase of our oil and gas”.

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