Threatening European allies to further tax American citizens is unlikely to persuade them to surrender Greenland to the United States.

The 10% tariffs against the eight countries will go into effect on Feb. 1.

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he was canceling his planned tariff on U.S. allies in Europe over US control of Greenland after he and the leader of NATO agreed to a ‘framework of a future deal’ on Arctic security.

Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland are casting a united front after Trump threatens tariffs.

European nations have struck back at consistent and aggressive overtures from the U.S. toward Greenland.

"As such, the more likely outcome, in our view, is that both sides recognize that a major escalation would be a lose-lose proposition, and that compromise eventually prevails."

If anyone in Europe knows NATO and Danish politics, it’s Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the military alliance’s former secretary general and a former Danish prime minister. “Tariffs on allies make no sense,” Rasmussen told The Wall Street Journal.

US President, Donald Trump threatened to hit Norway, Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Finland and the UK with new 10 per cent tariffs