{"id":802672,"date":"2026-03-04T04:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T04:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/802672\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T04:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T04:34:24","slug":"merz-says-eu-wont-accept-us-trade-deal-on-worse-tariff-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/802672\/","title":{"rendered":"Merz says EU won\u2019t accept US trade deal on worse tariff terms"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump meets with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on March 3, 2026. (PHOTO\/AFP)<\/p>\n

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told President Donald Trump that he wants the European Union\u2019s trade agreement with the US to be implemented quickly but the bloc can\u2019t accept a deal with worse conditions.<\/p>\n

Merz held bilateral talks with the American president for a second time Tuesday and said at the start of the meeting in the Oval Office he also wanted to discuss the US-Israeli strikes on Iran and the Ukraine crisis with Trump.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA limit has been reached of what we are willing to accept, what we can accept with regard to this disproportionate burden with tariffs,\u201d Merz told reporters after his meeting with Trump. \u201cWe want this agreement to last and I have gained the impression that the president and his staff see it that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump administration officials are rushing to design a new tariff regime after the president\u2019s original framework was struck down last month by the US Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

The European Commission, the EU\u2019s executive arm, has been pushing to get the EU\u2014US pact sealed last July approved, but the European Parliament has repeatedly delayed a final ratification vote until they have clarity about Washington\u2019s intentions.<\/p>\n

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Heads of the European Parliament\u2019s trade committee will meet Wednesday to decide if they\u2019ll unfreeze the ratification process.<\/p>\n

EU member states have broadly supported sticking to the EU-US agreement despite the new tariff framework breaching the 15 percent ceiling for products like cheese and plastics.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to talk about our trade agreement, which I would like to be in place as soon as possible,\u201d Merz told reporters in brief remarks alongside Trump in the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump meets with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office of the White House…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[32,2000,299,5187,1699,1945,3075,49,89220],"class_list":["post-802672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-donald-trump","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-tariff","tag-united-states","tag-us-trade-deal"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116169045940920622","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802672","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=802672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}