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The European Commission has said that after a two -hour meeting between the two parties, the European Commission has said that the United States did not report the trade tariff to the EU.
EU Trade Commissioner Maro -Ephovio Monday met with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik on how the US party failed to determine how the so -called corrupted tariffs imposed on the United States could be discussed with steel, aluminum and car duty.
“We need to hear more from Americans. We need to have a more clear idea about what the results of their preferred results in this discussion,” said I trade Tuesday spokesperson Olph Gill.
Gill says Ifovio repeated the proposal to mutually exclude all industrial goods tariffs.
“Doing part of the EU. Now, it needs to be determined in the United States. Like every discussion it must be a two-faced road … both sides bring something,” he said.
The White House and Commerce Department did not immediately respond to any request for comments.
The United States gives breaks when it is imposed, by mutually enrolling a long set of complaints Tariff Most parts of the world this month. But the calculations were based on trade surplus on goods between them and the United States. In 2024 it was given to the EU 20 percent based on the $ 235 billion product surplus.
Donald Trump has said that the EU should buy more liquid natural gas, which Brussels has agreed in principle.
The US president has attacked the EU to buy enough cars and not buy “non-tariff barrier”, which excludes beef from our chicken and cattle feeding hormones. He has tiled against VAT and its digital control.
Within a few days of imposing tariffs, Trump dropped them and applied 10 percent tariffs for almost all countries for about 90 days, and encouraged partners to sustain a contract to reduce responsibility permanently.
However, on Monday, he also directed the officials to prepare new measures against semiconductor and pharmaceutical products. Gill says that šefčovič reiterated the importance of the elastic transaatlantic supply chain in these sectors.
Gill said the meeting was a “focused scooping” session, with zero tariff plans and steel and aluminum industries also covered global power.
However, he added that the quality of food protection was “Sacrosankt”.
“The Commissioner re -mentioned that the EU and the United States had shared many challenges and could jointly address them for the benefit of both sides,” he said.
“In order to identify the fields of general interest in the EU, these discussions will continue to contact in a constructive manner. It is clear that significant joint efforts will be required to achieve a successful result in a 90 -day window.”
The EU steel and aluminum tariffs have paused its retaliatory tariffs until July 14. It was working to take further measures for other tariffs, Gill said if there was no agreement.
