{"id":149835,"date":"2025-06-01T16:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T16:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/149835\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T16:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T16:04:09","slug":"lutnick-downplays-tariff-court-ruling-impact-on-us-eu-talks-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/149835\/","title":{"rendered":"Lutnick downplays tariff court ruling impact on US-EU talks \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">US secretary of commerce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/howard-lutnick\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/howard-lutnick\">Howard Lutnick<\/a> downplayed the impact of legal uncertainty around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/us-tariffs\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/us-tariffs\">US tariffs<\/a> on negotiations with the European Union during an interview with Fox News on Sunday, saying talks were ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lutnick was asked about a Reuters report quoting an unnamed EU official close to negotiations who said the legal uncertainty of the tariffs in the US gave the EU \u201cextra leverage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cYou can\u2019t listen to silly people making silly comments,\u201d Lutnick said. \u201cAll of the countries that are negotiating with us understand the power of Donald Trump and his ability to protect the American worker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A US trade court blocked most of president Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs in a sweeping ruling last week that found the president overstepped his authority by imposing across-the-board duties on imports from American trading partners. A US federal appeals court paused that ruling a day later, allowing the tariffs to go into effect while it considered an appeal by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lutnick said the ruling \u201cmaybe cost us a week, but then everybody came right back to the table.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Trump in late May threatened 50 per cent tariffs on all European goods by June 1st but days later delayed the effective date to July 9th to allow for time to negotiate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Trump also said on Friday that he would increase tariffs on imported steel and aluminium to 50 per cent from 25 per cent, leading the European Commission on Saturday to say it could consider countermeasures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Speaking on ABC News, White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said the US needed to protect its steel industry for national security reasons in light of economic rival China\u2019s steel production. \u201cWe have to show strength,\u201d Mr Hassett said. \u201cWe have to have a steel industry that\u2019s ready for American defence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Meanwhile US treasury secretary Scott Bessent said he believes Mr Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping will speak soon to iron out trade issues including a dispute over critical minerals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mr Trump on Friday accused China of violating an agreement to mutually roll back tariffs and trade restrictions for critical minerals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWhat China is doing is they are holding back products that are essential for the industrial supply chains of India, of Europe. And that is not what a reliable partner does,\u201d Mr Bessent said in an interview on Sunday with CBS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI am confident that when President Trump and Party Chairman Xi have a call, that this will be ironed out. But the fact that they are withholding some of the products that they agreed to release during our agreement \u2013 maybe it\u2019s a glitch in the Chinese system, maybe it\u2019s intentional. We\u2019ll see after the president speaks with the party chairman.\u201d \u2013 Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US secretary of commerce Howard Lutnick downplayed the impact of legal uncertainty around US tariffs on negotiations with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1395,32,2000,299,5187,1699,14009,10690,2612,1773],"class_list":{"0":"post-149835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-howard-lutnick","15":"tag-trump-presidency","16":"tag-us-tariffs","17":"tag-xi-jinping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114608962001622167","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149835","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=149835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}