{"id":381534,"date":"2025-08-29T02:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/381534\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T02:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:45:11","slug":"no-american-monster-trucks-arent-appearing-on-eu-roads-anytime-soon-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/381534\/","title":{"rendered":"No, American monster trucks aren\u2019t appearing on EU roads anytime soon \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the U.S., “the manufacturer simply puts its vehicle in the market and declares that it is compliant with all the relevant U.S. regulations,” said Dudley Curtis, communications director with the European Transport Safety Council.<\/p>\n

Cars in the EU, however, must be submitted to a national type approval body in one of the member countries that is responsible for certifying the car and alerting other capitals should a recall be needed.<\/p>\n

“It’s a long and complex process,” Curtis said.<\/p>\n

\"\"U.S. President Donald Trump, meanwhile, wants to see American pickup trucks in Europe \u2014 and has denounced the dearth of U.S. cars as a sign of protectionism. | Patrick T. Fallon\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

American cars do make it onto European roads, but they have to be approved on a case-by-case basis. A broader exemption would allow for much larger \u2014 and quicker \u2014 exports.<\/p>\n

Adding to the regulatory difference is the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, which sets global car standards \u2014 something the EU abides by but the U.S. does not.<\/p>\n

Because the U.S. does not adhere to the U.N. regulations, “the EU cannot simply start recognizing them\u00a0without undertaking legal changes \u2014 for example, by amending existing regulations or adding new ones,” Lawrence Freeman, an automotive-focused lawyer at Bird & Bird, said in an email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the U.S., “the manufacturer simply puts its vehicle in the market and declares that it is compliant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[346,32,2000,8954,299,5187,479,6717,49,1220],"class_list":{"0":"post-381534","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-eu-us-trade-talks","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-tariffs","15":"tag-transatlantic-relations","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115109765557685666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381534","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=381534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}