France, Feb. 21 -- "Should it become necessary, the EU has the appropriate instruments at its disposal," Forissier said in an interview with Britain'sFinancial Times,published on Saturday.

He said Paris was in talks with EU counterparts and the European Commissionafter Trump signed an executive order on Friday introducing a "temporary" 10 percent flat global tariff.

Trump announced the measure hours after the US Supreme Court ruled that many of the existing tariffs he had levied on trading partners were illegal.

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