Overview
- The president said a 10% tariff on imports from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the U.K., the Netherlands and Finland would start on Feb. 1 and rise to 25% on June 1, remaining until a deal for the “complete and total purchase of Greenland” is reached.
- European leaders condemned the move, convened emergency discussions, and considered reactivating roughly €93 billion in retaliatory duties, with officials signaling a coordinated response and warning of a “dangerous downward spiral.”
- Danish and Greenlandic officials reiterated that Greenland is not for sale as thousands protested in Nuuk and across Denmark, emphasizing Greenlanders’ right to decide their future.
- The targeted countries said their small troop deployments to Danish exercises in Greenland posed no threat, asserting full solidarity with Denmark and Greenland and rejecting “blackmail.”
- Implementation faces hurdles in the United States, including a pending Supreme Court review of tariff authority, bipartisan congressional resistance, and fresh risks to an unratified U.S.–EU trade deal.