For more on the U.S. trade war with Europe, we turn now to Yovita Nolipchena, the European Union's

ambassador to the United States. Madam Ambassador, welcome back to the News Hour. Thanks for joining us.

Well, thank you for having me. So as we reported, these tariffs largely target products made

in Republican states, products from Kansas and Nebraska, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana.

Is it your hope here that Republican lawmakers will speak up and apply pressure to President

Trump to roll back the tariffs?

Or do you hope that President Trump starts to lose support from his base in these states?

Well, first of all, let's start from the beginning.

We actually deeply regret that the tariffs are introduced for the EU products on steel and

aluminum.

We never saw the tariffs as really the measure to foster trade, and we see it actually it will as a harm for the transatlantic

trade relations so we but we have to react and our react will be a reaction will be a prompt

and we will re-institute the tariffs we already had and discussed back in

2018 and 2020. And is it your hope here that Republican lawmakers will see that and want to save

their states and start to apply pressure? Have you been in touch with any of them?

Well, we really had a lot of conversations with senators and congressmen here in D.C. trying

to send one single message that tariffs are really not for the best of the transatlantic relations.

So we hope that everyone can send the same message.

We did see how quickly the terms, even between the U.S. and Ontario, for example,

there was an escalation there, then it was a quick de-escalation.

You saw Ontario slap a surcharge on electricity exports 24 hours later

after a call between the Premier there and the U.S. Commerce Secretary, Ontario rolled back

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