{"id":32088,"date":"2026-03-14T17:38:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/32088\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T17:38:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:38:40","slug":"swiss-sticking-to-mandate-for-trade-talks-with-us-minister-says-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/32088\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss sticking to mandate for trade talks with US, minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">ZURICH, March 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Switzerland is sticking to its existing mandate for trade negotiations \u200cwith the United States that aim \u200cto finalise a deal over tariffs struck last year, \u200bEconomy Minister Guy Parmelin said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Parmelin was speaking after the United States said on Wednesday it was launching trade investigations into excess \u200cindustrial capacity in \u206016 major trading partners, including Switzerland, and into allegations of forced labour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;And \u2060we will most certainly also consult with these countries to see how to respond to \u200bthe United \u200bStates,&#8221; Parmelin told \u200breporters at a press \u200cconference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Switzerland was subject to the highest U.S. tariffs in Europe when U.S. President Donald Trump imposed in August a 39% duty on products imported from the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">In November, Bern sealed \u200can initial deal that \u200bcut the tariffs to 15%, \u200bmirroring the \u200brate for the European Union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Switzerland has \u200csince begun talks to formalise \u200bthat deal, \u200bwhich Washington has been pressing to conclude by the end of March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;The negotiations and \u200bdiscussions are \u200ccontinuing,&#8221; said Parmelin, who is also Switzerland&#8217;s \u200bpresident for 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by Dave Graham, \u200bEditing by Miranda Murray)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ZURICH, March 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Switzerland is sticking to its existing mandate for trade negotiations \u200cwith the United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8734,593,41,17,19010,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-32088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-guy-parmelin","9":"tag-president-donald-trump","10":"tag-swiss","11":"tag-switzerland","12":"tag-the-united","13":"tag-trade-negotiations"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116228751553097449","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}