India, July 14 -- German stocks are notably lower on Monday as trade war worries escalated after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened over the weekend that he would impose a 30% tariff on EU imports from August 1.
According to media reports, the European Union has prepared a €21 billion ($24.52 billion) tariff package targeting American goods if trade talks between the two sides collapsed.
The benchmark DAX, which dropped to 23,986.40 earlier in the session, was down 178.43 points or 0.74% at 24,061.55 a few minutes ago.
Automobile stocks are among the prominent losers.
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