Talks between Washington and Brussels are nearing crunch time, with Trump threatening from July 9 to hike tariffs on most EU exports to the United States to 50 percent from 10 percent now.<\/p>\n
The Commission, which handles trade policy on behalf of the bloc\u2019s 27 members, consulted member states and businesses on a second list of goods that would be hit with tariffs as soon as mid-July, should the EU and the U.S. fail to agree to end their raging trade war.<\/p>\n
EU capitals have been lobbying to remove sensitive goods from the lists, fearing that Trump could target them with reprisals.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, France, Italy and Ireland pushed to remove bourbon whiskey from a first retaliation package after Trump threatened a 200 percent levy<\/a> on all wines, champagne and alcoholic products coming from the EU. This first package has not yet been implemented.<\/p>\n Among countries pushing back against retaliation is Ireland, a top EU exporter of pharmaceuticals<\/a> to the U.S. that also hosts the European headquarters of many Silicon Valley tech giants. Germany is lobbying for a negotiated settlement<\/a> to spare its big auto industry from duties, with Economy Minister Katharina Reiche in Washington D.C. this week for talks.<\/p>\n The European Commission declined to comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talks between Washington and Brussels are nearing crunch time, with Trump threatening from July 9 to hike tariffs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[346,32,2000,299,5187,1214,36,1824,806,678,2199,11582,46,479,1201,1219,49,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-203825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-cars","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-exports","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-germany","16":"tag-industry","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-italy","19":"tag-lobbying","20":"tag-policy","21":"tag-tariffs","22":"tag-trade","23":"tag-trade-war","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114724189165585638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203825","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=203825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}