{"id":152834,"date":"2025-06-02T19:09:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T19:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/152834\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T19:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T19:09:15","slug":"eu-trade-chief-to-meet-us-counterpart-in-paris-amid-increased-tariff-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/152834\/","title":{"rendered":"EU trade chief to meet US counterpart in Paris amid increased tariff tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    Published on                 02\/06\/2025 &#8211; 19:11 GMT+2\u2022Updated<br \/>\n                                     19:14<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/logo-euronews-grey-6-180x22.svg.svg+xml\" width=\"180\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>EU trade Commissioner Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d will meet his US counterpart Ambassador Jamieson\u00a0Greer on Wednesday on the sidelines of an OECD meeting in Paris following a high-level gathering of EU and US experts in Washington on Tuesday against rising tensions over US customs duties.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission is hoping to rekindle negotiation with the US a week after EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and US president Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/05\/26\/eu-tariff-offer-still-on-the-table-says-eu-commission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spoke<\/a> on the phone, despite Trump\u2019s subsequent decision on 30 May to slap 50% tariffs on EU steel and aluminium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe EU in good faith paused its countermeasures on 14 April, to create space for continued negotiations, and following the call between president Ursula von der Leyen and president Donald Trump both sides agreed to accelerate the pace of talks,\u201d Commission spokesperson Olof Gill said on Monday, acknowledging however that Trump\u2019s last announcement on steel and aluminium undermined the Commission&#8217;s \u201congoing efforts to reach a negotiated solution with the US\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission has suspended until 14 July a list of countermeasures targeting US products after Trump decided on a 90-Day pause in the trade dispute he launched against his partners across the globe. But the Commission could decide to move forward with those countermeasures, it said.<\/p>\n<p>A second list of US product is also open to consultation from industry until 10 June, when EU member states will adopt them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf no mutually acceptable solution is reached, both the existing and the possible additional measures will automatically take effect on 14 July or earlier if circumstances require,\u201c Gill said.<\/p>\n<p>\u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d has already travelled to Washington three times to meet with his US counterparts, but his efforts have so far failed to break the deadlock.<\/p>\n<p>The US and the EU exchanged proposals to begin negotiations, but both\u00a0sides have dismissed the other&#8217;s offers. It wasn\u2019t until EU and\u00a0US\u00a0leaders spoke by phone that talks were able to move forward\u2014until President Trump announced new tariffs on steel and aluminium at the end of last week, putting the negotiations at risk once again.<\/p>\n<p>The US currently imposes\u00a025%\u00a0tariffs on EU steel and aluminium, 25% on cars and 10% on all EU imports. Several investigations in pharma, semiconductors or aircrafts could also lead to more US tariffs on EU goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 02\/06\/2025 &#8211; 19:11 GMT+2\u2022Updated 19:14 ADVERTISEMENT EU trade Commissioner Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d will meet his US counterpart&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[32,2000,7221,299,5187,2557,1216,479,1201],"class_list":{"0":"post-152834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-eu-policy","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-commission","14":"tag-maros-sefcovic","15":"tag-tariffs","16":"tag-trade"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114615351053028419","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152834","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=152834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}