German Chancellor Says Trump`s Tariffs Threaten Global Prosperity
(WorldNews Germany)

The war of words over Donald Trump´s threat to impose wide-ranging tariffs on imports from China and the European Union has intensified after the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, said the levies threatened the incomes of workers across the world, The Guardian reports. On Friday, Merkel described possible U.S. tariffs on imported cars as a breach of World Trade Organization rules and `a real threat to the prosperity of many in the world` as Trump went on U.S. television to say that he was ready to expand his roster of tariffs on Beijing to $500 billion, covering almost every product imported to the U.S. from China. Earlier, Trump said on Twitter that the U.S. `should be allowed to recapture...