French President Emmanuel Macron says he will urge US President Donald Trump to avoid making allies \”suffer\” Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on a number of EU products. \”I will explain to him that between allies, you don’t make each other suffer with tariffs,\” Macron said during a visit to the French Agriculture Show ahead of a meeting with Trump on Monday. \”Agriculture is one of France’s great export businesses,\” he said in an interview with the news agency AFP. \”We need to calm things down,\” the French president said in response to the US President’s threats to impose new tariffs on the EU and other countries. \”You don’t want to make your friends suffer,\” he told AFP in a separate interview in Paris on Saturday. ‘I will talk to him about this because we need to Calm things down,’ Macron said. ‘We don’t need to make our friends suffer,’ he added. ‘You don’t want to start a trade war between the United States and the European Union,’ the French President said in another interview with AFP in Paris.
