The European Union could target Boeing and whiskey-maker Brown-Forman under its plans for retaliatory tariffs if the bloc can’t reach a trade deal with the U.S.

European Union officials have drawn up plans to impose levies on American imports, but questions abound about whether they would go through with them.

The US is imposing a 17% tariff on most tomatoes imported from Mexico with immediate effect, the government said. The duty came into force after the US withdrew from a long-standing agreement with its southern neighbour, arguing that the deal "had failed to protect US tomato growers from unfairly priced Mexican imports".