{"id":146834,"date":"2025-05-31T12:57:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T12:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/146834\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T12:57:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T12:57:29","slug":"trump-court-turmoil-strengthens-eu-hand-in-tariff-talks-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/146834\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump court turmoil strengthens EU hand in tariff talks \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday<\/a> and Thursday<\/a>, two separate courts destroyed the legal basis<\/a> of Trump\u2019s so-called reciprocal tariffs on some 60-odd countries and the EU. An appeal in the first case reinstated the tariffs<\/a> \u2014 at least while the legal process drags on. The case might ultimately end up in front of the Supreme Court<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis hopefully means that we can get a more constructive approach and not just a unilateral request of concessions, which we just can\u2019t accept,\u201d Benifei added, referring to American demands that tech, food and product safety regulations be curbed.<\/p>\n

As the twists and turns of the trade war play out across the global stage \u2014 with one EU diplomat quipping that the situation is \u201ctoo unpredictable for hot takes on how this affects negotiations\u201d \u2014 it looks more and more like the European Commission\u2019s wait-and-see approach to Trump\u2019s tariffs is paying off, analysts say.<\/p>\n

\"\"On Wednesday and Thursday, two separate courts destroyed the legal basis of Trump\u2019s so-called reciprocal tariffs on some 60-odd countries and the EU. | Pool photo by Chris Kleponis\/EFE via EPA<\/p>\n

\u201cThe case for shrugging off these tariffs becomes stronger,\u201d said senior policy fellow Agathe Demarais at the European Council on Foreign Relations. The Commission can essentially \u201cwait for Trump to change his mind, have a court strike down the tariffs or let Trump see the U.S. economy sink,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The EU executive, which leads on trade policy for all 27 countries, has been preparing a tariff retaliation package that would hit around \u20ac116 billion worth of U.S. exports to the EU, while also repeatedly offering a zero-for-zero tariff deal to Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they’re doing all the right things: remaining calm, steady, professional, bureaucratic,\u201d Demarais said. \u201cNegotiations and retaliation all take time and energy, which the EU could spend better elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday and Thursday, two separate courts destroyed the legal basis of Trump\u2019s so-called reciprocal tariffs on some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[30,2000,299,5187,11665,809,46,479,1201,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-146834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-courts","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-meps","13":"tag-negotiations","14":"tag-policy","15":"tag-tariffs","16":"tag-trade","17":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114602563647915741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}