{"id":296347,"date":"2025-07-27T16:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T16:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296347\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T16:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T16:52:12","slug":"us-commerce-secretary-says-europe-must-open-markets-to-get-lower-tariff-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296347\/","title":{"rendered":"US commerce secretary says Europe must open markets to get lower tariff deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reuters) -The European Union must open up its markets for U.S. exports in order to convince U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/people\/donald-trump\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:President Donald Trump;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Donald Trump<\/a> to reduce a threatened 30% tariff rate due to kick in on August 1, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Sunday, adding Brussels clearly wanted to make a deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">&#8220;The question is, do they offer President Trump a good enough deal that is worth it for him to step off of the 30% tariffs that he set,&#8221; Lutnick told &#8220;Fox News Sunday,&#8221; adding that Trump was looking to increase access for U.S. firms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">He said the ultimate decision would be up to Trump, who has said there is a 50-50 chance a deal can be reached with the EU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Andrea Shalal in Edinburgh and Ahmed AbouleneinEditing by Peter Graff)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Reuters) -The European Union must open up its markets for U.S. exports in order to convince U.S. President&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[32,2000,299,5187,14009,10216,26945],"class_list":{"0":"post-296347","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-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-howard-lutnick","13":"tag-tariff-rate","14":"tag-the-european-union"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114926239452565394","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296347","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=296347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}