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The US and the EU discussed a potential reduction agreement and finally abolish the car import tariffs while Brussels struggles to avoid being involved in escalating the global trade war of Donald Trump.
EU officials have insisted that there is a “positive momentum” according to the compromise between the two sides after talking in Washington this week trying to “avoid unnecessary pain” and avoid tariffs The US president threatens.
“The priority, which has been highlighted several times in our conversation, was to work on cars – how to lower the tariffs, in the end even eliminating them,” the European Commissioner Maroš Šefčonist told reporters on Thursday.
“They are very open to discuss everything that is concerned with the reduction of tariffs, because we are probably the most open economy in the world,” he added. “Our number one priority is to avoid this period of pain.”
Since he took over his duty Trump He sought to rebuild an American trade relationship with the world. He struck Chinese goods with an additional 10 percent of the collection and plans to impose a 25 -pointed steel and aluminum importing from next month.
Also plans to present “Reciprocal” tariffs Based on the country, which could hardly hit Europe and weighing the imposition of focused on the industry sector, including cars, pharmaceutical and semiconductors.
Trump has singled out the EU for special criticism, throwing out on the proportion of a trade deficit and what he considers as a discriminatory treatment for US imports, especially in the automotive sector. The EU charges a 10 -focused car tax compared to the level of 2.5 percent of USA.
“The EU was very unfair to us,” said this week. “They don’t take our cars, they don’t take our grown products, they take almost nothing ..
Head of Chief, on Wednesday, held four hours of interview with US Secretary of Store Hward, a candidate for US trade representative Jamieson Greer and the director of the National Economic Council Kevin Hassett.
The EU Store chief asked Washington to postpone all the new levies while the contract was thrown out, a request he said was “positively spotted”.
But the letter clearly said that every job on car tariffs would have to consider the 25 percent rate they were now charging on the import of a light truck, including download. “Now you protect the pick-up.. So I think if you are looking for reciprocity, it has to do it for both,” he said.
Brussels has already promised a “solid and proportional” retaliation if Trump is on March 12. But the chief of the head was reluctant to spread the way the EU response would be played.
He said delegations were discussing the narrowing of the trade deficit “relatively quickly” by increasing the import of EU -liquefied natural gas and soybean imports. “We need more LNG. Because we abolish Russian gas. So this is obvious.. The area where we can work a lot together.”
The Commission refused to comment on another central American demand for accepting multiple shells. The EU has spent three years reviewing whether three countries of the US states – Maine, Connecticut and Rhode Island – should join the only other two – Massachusetts and Washington – capable of exporting oysters and mussels to the block.
Last month, the White House said she would use tariffs to resolve the imbalance in the shell store. In 2023, shells were now worth $ 274 million from the EU, but only made $ 38 million in products.
