U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% tariffs on imports from the European Union, claiming that the economic and political bloc was formed “to screw” the U.S.

The White House leader signaled the potential trade measures on Wednesday, during the first Cabinet meeting of his second term in office — a day before he announced that another set of proposed levies on Mexico and Canada will go into effect on March 4, noting that China will be charged an additional 10% tariff on the same date.

“We’ll be announcing it very soon,” he told reporters of the EU measures on Wednesday. “It’ll be [a] 25% [tariff] generally speaking, and that will be on cars and all other things.”

He added, “They’ve really taken advantage of us … They don’t accept our cars, they don’t accept, essentially, our farm products. They use all sorts of reasons why not. And we accept everything of them.”

The president has made it a priority to tackle what he sees as unfair trade relationships with a number of the U.S.′ closest neighbors and trading partners, citing the U.S.′ persistent trade deficits — in which it imports more goods and services than it exports — as evidence of this.

Trump claimed, without citing evidence, that the EU had been formed to undermine the U.S.

“I love the countries of Europe. I guess I’m from there at some point, a long time ago, right? … But [the] European Union was formed in order to screw the United States … that’s the purpose of it, and they’ve done a good job of it. But now I’m president,” he said.

The EU was established after the 1993 enforcement of the Maastricht Treaty, building on post-war sentiment of European unity and cites establishing an internal market and achieving sustainable development among its aims.