What’s in the EU-US trade deal?

“We are agreeing that the tariff straight across, for automobiles and everything else, will be a straight across tariff of 15%,” according to Trump.

Currently, most EU goods face a 10% tariff, with levies of 50% on steel and aluminum. Cars and car parts are now taxed at 25%.

Trump also said the bloc had agreed to purchase “$750 billion (€638 billion) worth of energy” from his country, as well as $600 billion more in additional investments.

The president told reporters at the start of the meeting that fairness was the main remaining sticking point.

“Europe is very closed. We don’t sell cars into Europe. We don’t sell essentially agriculture of any great degree,” he said, adding that pharmaceuticals “won’t be part of” any agreement.

  • Kyden Fumofly@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 days ago

    Raise your standards for food safety and Europe will buy. Europeans are more demanding with what they stuff in their mouths. But the way deregulations and the dismantling of the FDA is going in the US, it’s not going to improve anytime soon.

    With Trump in office, is the period of deregulation for US now. In everything. He started with AI.