European lawmaker Bernd Lange, responsible for the European Parliament’s negotiations on the EU-U.S. trade deal, told POLITICO he believed the Trump administration’s announcement made a final deal more likely.<\/p>\n
Lange noted that the U.S. administration had scrapped 50 percent tariffs on many steel derived items, bringing some, like motorcycles, to the agreed 15 percent levels. In other cases, however, a special 25 percent rate applied.<\/p>\n
“The US is increasingly adopting a stance of not further breaching the Scotland Deal,” said the EU lawmaker. But, he added, “we wanted a little bit more, so let\u2019s see.” <\/p>\n
The White House also confirmed that a 15 percent tariff applied to pharmaceutical imports from the EU, in line with the Turnberry deal, and not the 100 percent tariff applied to products from elsewhere.<\/p>\n
Olof Gill, the European Commission’s deputy chief spokesperson, said the Commission was assessing the announcement.<\/p>\n
“We will continue to work towards reducing tariffs,” said Gill. “Our priority remains to preserve a stable and predictable transatlantic trading environment, in full respect of the commitments agreed.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European lawmaker Bernd Lange, responsible for the European Parliament’s negotiations on the EU-U.S. trade deal, told POLITICO he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[31927,32,1396,2000,299,5187,1699,1214,475,5111,712,1218,479,1201,49],"class_list":["post-869468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-bernd-lange","tag-donald-trump","tag-dumping-duties","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-exports","tag-imports","tag-parliament","tag-scotland","tag-steel","tag-tariffs","tag-trade","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116341172240049696","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869468","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=869468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}