{"id":318338,"date":"2025-08-04T23:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/318338\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T23:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:18:09","slug":"eu-to-suspend-us-tariff-countermeasures-for-6-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/318338\/","title":{"rendered":"EU to suspend US tariff countermeasures for 6 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union will suspend its two packages of countermeasures to U.S. tariffs for six months following a deal with U.S. President Donald Trump, a Commission spokesperson said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The EU-U.S. agreement leaves many questions open, including tariff rates on spirits, and Trump&#8217;s executive order last week setting tariffs on most EU goods at 15% did not include carve-outs such as for cars and car parts.<\/p>\n<p>EU officials have said they expect more executive orders to follow soon.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The EU continues to work with the U.S. to finalise a Joint Statement, as agreed on 27 July,&#8221; the spokesperson said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With these objectives in mind, the Commission will take the necessary steps to suspend by 6 months the EU\u2019s countermeasures against the US, which were due to enter into force on 7 August.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The retaliatory tariffs are in two parts: one in response to U.S. steel and aluminium duties, and the other to Trump&#8217;s baseline and car tariffs.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Julia Payne; Editing by Toby Chopra)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union will suspend its two packages of countermeasures to U.S. tariffs for six months&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,1699],"class_list":{"0":"post-318338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-european-union"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114973055698774353","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318338","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=318338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}