14 March 2017, 16:53 GMT
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump accused Germany of exporting more than it imports and threatened its car-making industry with a border tax on vehicles of 35 percent.
"Another possibility is that we simply sue them in the WTO. There is a special procedure for this," Zypries told Germany’s Deutschlandfunk radio.
The minister cited WTO regulations that include a 2.5-percent tax cap on car imports. But she appeared optimistic, saying she expected Trump to be reasonable about tariff policies, which cannot be changed overnight.
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