{"id":256145,"date":"2025-09-26T13:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/256145\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T13:05:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:05:19","slug":"nearly-half-of-us-companies-in-europe-expect-declining-economic-ties-survey-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/256145\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly half of US companies in Europe expect declining economic ties, survey shows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Almost half of U.S. companies operating in Europe believe transatlantic economic relations will worsen, although that is a marked improvement from the start of U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a>‘s second term, according to a survey published on Friday.<\/p>\n

The American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham EU), which has more than 160 members including Apple<\/a>, Goldman Sachs, Meta Platforms and Visa, said its survey showed 46% of respondents expected worsening EU-U.S. trade and investment ties, compared with 89% in a similar survey in January.<\/p>\n

A third now expect stability after the European Union and the United States struck a trade deal at the end of July, which is set to remove most EU duties on U.S. goods, while the United States imposes 15% import tariffs<\/a> on most EU products.<\/p>\n

AmCham said companies viewed the deal positively, despite criticism in Brussels and EU capitals.<\/p>\n

“They see it as having averted unprecedented damage to transatlantic trade and investment, even as real concerns about the policy environment remain,” said AmCham EU CEO Malte Lohan.<\/p>\n

A majority of the companies still anticipate a negative impact from Washington and Brussels policies – 60% for the United States and 56% for the European Union.<\/p>\n

The survey, carried out among 52 U.S.-controlled members between September 8 and 16, showed that reducing tariffs was still the number one priority.<\/p>\n

The companies also stressed the need for addressing non-tariff barriers, such as EU rules on deforestation and supply chains, and stronger cooperation and mutual recognition of standards.<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Philip Blenkinsop in BrusselsEditing by Bill Berkrot)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Almost half of U.S. companies operating in Europe believe transatlantic economic relations will worsen, although that…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":256146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[117877,64,79,440,8697,862,5005,134898,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-256145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-american-chamber-of-commerce","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-goldman-sachs","14":"tag-president-donald-trump","15":"tag-transatlantic-trade","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115270747788445624","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}