{"id":301223,"date":"2025-07-29T12:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/301223\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T12:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:49:09","slug":"brussels-scrambles-to-defend-us-trade-deal-with-details-up-in-the-air-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/301223\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels scrambles to defend US trade deal with details up in the air\u00a0 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAll I can tell you is that we\u2019ve avoided the worst case, we\u2019ve landed on 15 percent, and we will make it work technically with the minimum of costs and the minimum damage for our exporters,\u201d Gill added.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the White House and the European Commission aimed to publish a joint statement by Aug. 1. Whether that will happen, however, is now uncertain, with many details still to be  ironed out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gill said he couldn\u2019t say \u201cprecisely when that joint statement will be ready, but it should be soon.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/fact-sheets\/2025\/07\/fact-sheet-the-united-states-and-european-union-reach-massive-trade-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White House<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/qanda_25_1930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Commission<\/a> have published seperate fact sheets on the deal that contain competing information.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The White House states, for example, that \u201cthe European Union will pay the United States a tariff rate of 15 percent, including on autos and auto parts, pharmaceuticals, and semiconductors.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The EU executive asserts that 15 percent tariffs on pharmaceuticals and semiconductors will only be imposed once \u201cthe U.S. decides on whether to impose additional tariffs on these products pursuant [separate, ongoing investigations in the U.S.].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAll I can tell you is that we\u2019ve avoided the worst case, we\u2019ve landed on 15 percent, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[1212,3677,38230,32,475,2441,2444,48,23422,413,1218,479,1201,49,1220,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-301223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-aluminum","9":"tag-digital","10":"tag-digital-markets","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-imports","13":"tag-markets","14":"tag-regulatory","15":"tag-rights","16":"tag-roads","17":"tag-space","18":"tag-steel","19":"tag-tariffs","20":"tag-trade","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114936608428993966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301223","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=301223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}