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This photograph shows European Union flags outside the Berlaymont building, the headquarters of the European Commission, in Brussels on Dec 15, 2025. (PHOTO \/ AFP)<\/p>\n

BRUSSELS – The European Commission said on Thursday it would respond “firmly and proportionately” to any breach of commitments under the European Union-US trade deal, following Washington’s launch of a Section 301 investigation into 16 economic entities, including the EU.<\/p>\n

European Commission Deputy Chief Spokesperson Olof Gill told a press briefing that the Commission would carefully review the details of the US investigation and continue to ensure that the EU’s interests are fully protected.<\/p>\n

Gill added that the Commission would seek further clarification from Washington on how the Section 301 investigation would interact with the framework agreed under the EU-US joint statement.<\/p>\n

“The Commission will respond firmly and proportionately to any breach of the joint statement commitments,” Gill said.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: <\/strong>Merz says EU won\u2019t accept US trade deal on worse tariff terms<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Under the EU-US trade deal reached in July, the EU agreed to eliminate tariffs on all US industrial products and introduce tariff-rate quotas for a wide range of US agri-food products entering the EU market. In return, Washington would set a 15-percent tariff ceiling on most EU goods exported to the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This photograph shows European Union flags outside the Berlaymont building, the headquarters of the European Commission, in Brussels…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[10959,2000,299,5187,1699,3075,1201,978],"class_list":["post-822061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-businesses","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-tariff","tag-trade","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116219594229338710","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822061","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=822061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}