{"id":322712,"date":"2025-08-06T14:29:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322712\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T14:29:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:29:31","slug":"nearly-60-of-german-firms-expect-eu-us-deal-to-burden-them-more-finds-dihk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322712\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 60% of German firms expect EU-US deal to burden them more, finds DIHK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">BERLIN (Reuters) -Nearly 60% of German companies expect the European Union&#8217;s trade deal with the United States to create more burdens for them through higher tariffs and more bureaucracy, a survey said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">That number rises to 74% for companies with a direct U.S. business, according to a flash survey by the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) of around 3,500 firms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">In contrast, 37% do not foresee any effect, while only 5% expect economic relief as a result of the deal that will provide for 15% tariffs on most EU goods starting Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">&#8220;This agreement may have been politically necessary, but for many companies in Germany, it is still a bitter pill to swallow,&#8221; said DIHK chief executive Helena Melnikov.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Even more problematic is lingering uncertainty on whether the agreement will hold, said Melnikov, urging the EU Commission to push for improvements in further talks with the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Some 80% of companies with direct U.S. business said their main concern is new tariffs coming into play, with nine out of 10 already seeing negative effects of the current policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Almost two-thirds of German companies are turning their attention to new markets as a result, with the European single market in particular seen as stable and predictable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Miranda Murray; editing by Matthias Williams)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN (Reuters) -Nearly 60% of German companies expect the European Union&#8217;s trade deal with the United States to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[108167,2000,299,1699,116752,10026,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-322712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-dihk","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european-union","12":"tag-german-chamber-of-commerce-and-industry","13":"tag-german-companies","14":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114982300163195988","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322712","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=322712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}