{"id":94410,"date":"2026-06-30T06:34:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/94410\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T06:34:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T06:34:30","slug":"no-breakthrough-in-swiss-us-trade-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/94410\/","title":{"rendered":"No breakthrough in Swiss-US trade dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ffbfbd92956a3f5e01b26d1f9436a0bd918855b2-91671219.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"No breakthrough in the trade dispute \u2013 negotiations with the US are ongoing\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                No breakthrough in the trade dispute \u2013 negotiations with the US are ongoing            <\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>        Trade negotiations in Washington have failed to yield a breakthrough between Switzerland and the United States, according to Swiss president Guy Parmelin.\n<\/p>\n<p>            Listen to the article        <\/p>\n<p>            Listening the article        <\/p>\n<p>                Toggle language selector            <\/p>\n<p>                            English (US)                        <\/p>\n<p>                            English (British)                        <\/p>\n<p>            Generated with artificial intelligence.        <\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        June 30, 2026 &#8211; 08:24\n<\/p>\n<p>Parmelin said a meeting with US Trade Representative Jamesion Greer had taken place in a friendly atmosphere as Switzerland presented a declaration of intent.<\/p>\n<p>This sets out how Switzerland intends to implement the agreements set out in the Joint Statement issued by the two nations in November 2025. The Joint Statement is due to expire towards the end of July.<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782801269_31_672137340_highres.jpg\" width=\"1300\" height=\"867\" alt=\"Watches\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Trade policy\n        <\/p>\n<p>        Explainer: How the new US tariffs are already impacting the Swiss economy    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Sep 8, 2025                    <\/p>\n<p>                On August 1, US President Donald Trump announced a tariff of 39% for Switzerland. The effects are slowly becoming visible.            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/trade-policy\/how-the-new-us-tariffs-are-already-impacting-the-swiss-economy\/89953649\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: Explainer: How the new US tariffs are already impacting the Swiss economy<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Switzerland has fulfilled all concessions and implemented them swiftly, said Parmelin. \u201cWe are a reliable partner; once we have made a commitment, we honour it. We expect the same from the US side \u2013 a deal is a deal,\u201d said Parmelin, who is also Swiss economics minister.<\/p>\n<p>But Parmelin was unable to secure a commitment that the US would continue to abide by last year\u2019s agreement. Furthermore, Switzerland remains vulnerable to US investigations under Section 301 of the US Trade Act.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/trade-policy\/us-threatens-switzerland-with-new-tariffs-over-forced-labour-imports\/91518307\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">+ US threatens Switzerland with new tariffs over forced labour<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No legal certainty <\/p>\n<p>Such complaints, raised by the Trump administration after the tariffs imposed in spring 2025 were ruled unlawful by the US Supreme Court, are directed against alleged \u201cunfair trade practices\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>For Switzerland, the focus is on structural overcapacity in industrial production and alleged inadequate measures against forced labour. The US is therefore threatening to impose additional tariffs of up to 12.5%. Parmelin once again firmly rejected the allegations in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>According to Parmelin, the US trade representative has announced that, for the time being, no additional tariffs will be imposed on Switzerland, which will continue to be treated under the most-favoured-nation clause. Additional tariffs are not to exceed the limits agreed in the joint statement, totalling 15%.<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782801270_990_458355628_highres.jpg\" width=\"1300\" height=\"867\" alt=\"swiss and us flags\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Global trade\n        <\/p>\n<p>        US tariffs force Switzerland to rethink trade ties    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Sep 24, 2025                    <\/p>\n<p>                United States trade policy is rattling countries worldwide and prompting them to redirect trade flows at record speed.            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/global-trade\/us-tariffs-force-switzerland-to-rethink-trade-ties\/90050061\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: US tariffs force Switzerland to rethink trade ties<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>US exporters are making extensive use of these new opportunities, Parmelin added. Swiss private-sector investments to support the reindustrialisation of the US are being implemented on an ongoing basis.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Parmelin will visit companies that invest in the US, as well as US companies that invest in Switzerland, to underline the federal government\u2019s commitment to cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>Translated from German, sub-edited by mga<\/p>\n<p>        Articles in this story    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No breakthrough in the trade dispute \u2013 negotiations with the US are ongoing Keystone-SDA Trade negotiations in Washington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[101,564,368,114,2143,100,69,103,41,17],"class_list":["post-94410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-article","tag-beat-global-trade","tag-beat-trade-policy","tag-business","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-latest-news","tag-politics","tag-production-type-deepl-autotranslation","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116837670499883388","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94410","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=94410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}