{"id":16740,"date":"2025-04-13T14:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T14:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/16740\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T14:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T14:35:14","slug":"eu-trade-commissioner-to-travel-to-the-us-on-monday-for-trade-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/16740\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Trade Commissioner to travel to the US on Monday for trade talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<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 travel on Monday to Washington to hold meetings with US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, Commission spokesperson Olof Gill said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission is hoping to advance negotiations on tariffs, after weeks of deadlock.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/icon-cross-10x10-grey-6.svg.svg+xml\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" alt=\"Close advertising\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe EU\u00a0is willing to find win-win outcomes, mutual beneficially deals with our American counterparts to avoid tariffs and to avoid any harmful escalation that would be damaging on both sides of the Atlantic,\u201d Gill said.<\/p>\n<p>The EU has offered to level US and EU tariffs to 0% on industrial goods. The US currently imposes 25% tariffs on EU imports of aluminium and steel, 25% tariffs on EU cars and 10% tariffs across the board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have offered zero-for-zero tariffs for industrial goods, as we have successfully done with many other trading partners,\u201d Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday before the 90-day pause was announced by the US.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission suspended on Thursday retaliation measures on a list of US products member states adopted on Wednesday against US tariffs on aluminium and steel, keen to give negotiation with the US a chance.<\/p>\n<p>EU Economy Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis assessed on Friday the impact of the trade war launched by the US administration. According to the Commission\u2019s figures, US GDP would be reduced by 0.8% to 1.4% up to\u00a02027, he claimed.\u00a0\u201cThe negative impact on the EU would be less than for the US, about 0.2% of GDP,\u201d Dombrovskis said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf tariffs are perceived to be permanent or if the targeted countries were to retaliate, igniting a trade war, the economic consequences would be more negative: up to 3.1%-3.3% for the US, 0.5%-0.6% for the EU and 1.2% for world GDP, while global trade would decline by 7.7% in 3 years\u2019 time,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ADVERTISEMENT EU trade commissioner Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d will travel on Monday to Washington to hold meetings with US Commerce&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,7221,299,5187,2557,1216,479,1219,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-16740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-eu-policy","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-european-commission","13":"tag-maros-sefcovic","14":"tag-tariffs","15":"tag-trade-war","16":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114331158019792370","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16740","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=16740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16740\/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=16740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}