In a phone conversation which the Turkish Minister of Economy Nihat Zeybekci has had with the EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström regarding the 25 percent tariff on steel imports announced by US President Trump, both parties agreed that they will act in unison before the World Trade Organization in relation to the US tariffs.
According to the press release issued by the Turkish economy ministry, Turkey’s steel exports to the US in 2017 amounted to a value of $1.2 billion.