Trump urges EU to boost US energy imports or face tariffs

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : "The EU is committed to phasing out energy imports from Russia and diversifying our sources of supply," a spokesperson said.
56% : The EU already buys the lion's share of U.S. oil and gas exports, according to U.S. government data.
55% : The United States already supplied 47% of the European Union's LNG imports and 17% of its oil imports in the first quarter of 2024, according to data from EU statistics office Eurostat.
44% : The EU has steeply increased purchases of U.S. oil and gas following the block's decision to impose sanctions and cut reliance on Russian energy after Moscow invaded Ukraine in 2022.
42% : The U.S. had a goods trade deficit with the EU of 155.8 billion euros ($161.9 billion) last year.
40% : Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, has already pledged hefty tariffs on three of the United States' largest trading partners - Canada, Mexico and China.
36% : Trump has vowed to impose tariffs on most if not all imports, and said Europe would pay a heavy price for having run a large trade surplus with the U.S. for decades.
35% : "I told the European Union that they must make up their tremendous deficit with the United States by the large-scale purchase of our oil and gas," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
24% : Trump has repeatedly highlighted the U.S. trade deficit for goods, but not trade as a whole.

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