Responding

How are international leaders responding?

From CNN's Antoinette Radford and Olesya Dmitracova

What has been the response from U.S. trading partners and international leaders? Could these tariffs lead to retaliatory measures, and what might these look like?” are some of the questions asked by Amedee, in California.

Many international leaders have been quick to condemn the previewed tariffs, warning that they don’t want to enter into a trade war, and saying their countries will take strong countermeasures if they are imposed.

Here’s what some of them had to say:

• Europe: On Tuesday, head of the European Union, Ursula Von der Leyen said bloc had a “strong plan” for striking back at the US, if required. Already, Europe has responded to Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs by unveiling countermeasures on up to 26 billion euros ($28 billion) worth of American goods exports, including tariffs on boats, bourbon and motorbikes.

• Canada, China, Japan and South Korea are also readying retaliation against Trump’s looming tariffs. The three Asian countries plan to announce retaliatory tariffs in lockstep, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said Monday. They held economic talks Sunday for the first time in five years, vowing to bolster fair trade and strengthen economic ties among them.

Canada: Prime Minister Mark Carney told President Donald Trump on Friday that his nation would retaliate against the US with tariffs of its own if Trump pressed forward with his promised levies.

United Kingdom: The Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, said his country would take a “pragmatic approach” to its response and that a “trade war is in nobody’s interest.”