{"id":38698,"date":"2025-07-04T18:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T18:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/38698\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T18:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T18:15:09","slug":"us-threatens-eu-with-17-tariff-on-food-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/38698\/","title":{"rendered":"US threatens EU with 17% tariff on food exports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\">Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington, business and the world<\/p>\n<p>The US has threatened to hit EU agricultural exports with 17 per cent tariffs in a dramatic escalation of its trade conflict with Brussels, said three people briefed on the discussions.<\/p>\n<p>The eleventh-hour move came ahead of a July 9 deadline to agree a trade deal, after which the US has said it will impose 20 per cent tariffs on all EU goods should no agreement be reached.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump wants Brussels to give US companies wide-ranging exemptions from regulations and to cut its trade surplus with the US.<\/p>\n<p>Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d, the EU trade commissioner, was handed the warning on Thursday in meetings in Washington and it was passed on to the 27 member state ambassadors on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ursula von der Leyen, the European commission president, said on Thursday that she hoped for an \u201cagreement in principle\u201d that would allow the sides to keep talking pending a final deal.\u00a0However, Washington is pushing countries to agree binding deals by Trump\u2019s deadline.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-38698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114796333134947024","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38698","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=38698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}