{"id":25656,"date":"2026-05-07T13:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/25656\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T13:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:39:17","slug":"eu-negotiators-fail-to-agree-on-us-trade-deal-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/25656\/","title":{"rendered":"EU negotiators fail to agree on US trade deal \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGood and constructive negotiations this evening with the Council and the Commission,\u201d said MEP Karin Karlsbro, who was representing the centrist Renew Europe group in the European Parliament. \u201cIt is important that we get a Trump-proof agreement in place before we have a final deal.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The inconclusive outcome puts the ball back in Trump\u2019s court, after his ambassador to the EU, Andrew Puzder, said earlier that Washington would impose the 25 percent auto tariff \u201crelatively soon\u201d if negotiators fail to reach a quick agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got time to fix it, the time is now,\u201d\u00a0Puzder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/videos\/2026-05-06\/us-could-impose-auto-tariffs-on-eu-soon-ambassador-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told Bloomberg TV<\/a> in Brussels. \u201cIf you do that he would probably take another look at it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2269919721-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8395094\"  \/>United States Ambassador to the EU Andrew Puzder, who had warned that Washington could impose the 25 percent auto tariff \u201crelatively soon,\u201d is pictured in Brussels on April 9, 2026. | Nicolas Tucat\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/us-and-eu-strike-trade-deal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the handshake deal<\/a> reached at Trump\u2019s Turnberry resort last July, the EU agreed to scrap its tariffs on U.S. industrial goods, while Washington would cap tariffs on most goods at 15 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the EU has yet to make good on that by passing enabling legislation, infuriating Trump and increasing pressure on the European Commission \u2014 which negotiates trade deals on behalf of its 27 members \u2014 to get it on the books.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission\u2019s top trade official, Sabine Weyand, told the European Parliament\u2019s trade committee earlier that she looked forward to a meeting \u201cwhich presents a breakthrough and which shows the EU stands by its commitments.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cGood and constructive negotiations this evening with the Council and the Commission,\u201d said MEP Karin Karlsbro, who was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[38,15715,4087,8,9,127,7,607,13],"class_list":{"0":"post-25656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-eu-us-trade-talks","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tariffs","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-trade","16":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116533576519580643","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}