EU claims ‘positive momentum’ in trade talks with US

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Donald Trump’s growing global trade war is to cut tariffs on car imports as Brussels and the United States and the EU in the United States and the EU have discussed a possible agreement.

EU officials insisted on Tariff Threatened by US President.

“This priority, highlighted in our conversation, was to work on cars – how to reduce the tariff, eventually eliminated them,” Europe’s Commerce Commissioner Maro Ephovio told reporters on Thursday.

He added, “They are very open to discuss all things that are worried about reducing tariffs, because we are probably the most open economy in the world,” he added. “Our number one priority is to avoid this pain.”

Since taking office Trump The United States has tried to rebuild business relationships with the world. He has hit Chinese products with additional 10 percent tariff and plans to impose 25 percent tariff on steel and aluminum imports from next month.

He also planned to introduce “Mutual” duty Country-by-country, which can hit Europe tightly, and weighs sector-centric tariffs in industries including automotive, pharma and semiconductor.

Trump has combined the EU for special criticism, the scale of trade deficit, and which he sees as discriminatory behavior in the automobile sector, especially for US imports. The EU charges 10 percent of the vehicle in the vehicle compared to 2.5 percent of the US level.

“The EU has been very wrong to us,” he Said this weekThe “They do not take our cars, they do not take our farm products, they do not take anything. The The And we need to make it straight. “

On Wednesday, Efovio discussed four hours with US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik, US Commerce Representative Jamison Greer and Director of the National Economic Council Kevin Hasset.

EU Trade Chief Washington asked any new tariff to delay any new tariff when an agreement was made, a request that he said was “to be positively appreciated”.

However, Slovak has made it clear that any agreement regarding automotive tariffs should be account for 25 percent rates collected by the United States to import light trucks with pick-ups. “The United States is protecting pick-ups. The The So I think if you are looking for mutual activities it will definitely work for both, ”he said.

Brussels has already promised revenge for “view and proportional” if Trump imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum on March 12 according to the plan. However, Efovio was reluctant to expand how the EU’s response would be effective.

He said the delegation had discussed the “relatively fast fast” trade deficit by increasing the import of liquid natural gas and the soyabians. “We need more LNG. The The Because we are doing Russian gas periodically. So it is clear. The The The region that we can do a lot together. “

The Commission has refused to comment on another central US demand for more shellfish. The EU has spent three years by reviewing the three US states – the Maine, Connecticut and Rhode Island – the only two – Massachusetts and Washington – the block should be allowed to be able to be able to export oyster and oysters.

The White House said last month that it would use tariffs to deal with the imbalance in the shellfish trade. In 2023 the United States imported $ 274 million worth of shellfish from the EU but exports only $ 38 million to the product.