{"id":98279,"date":"2025-07-28T02:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/98279\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T02:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:45:12","slug":"us-commerce-secretary-says-europe-must-open-markets-to-get-lower-tariff-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/98279\/","title":{"rendered":"US commerce secretary says Europe must open markets to get lower tariff deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reuters) -The European Union must open up its markets for U.S. exports in order to convince U.S. President Donald Trump to reduce a threatened 30% tariff rate due to kick in on August 1, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Sunday, adding Brussels clearly wanted to make a deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The question is, do they offer President Trump a good enough deal that is worth it for him to step off of the 30% tariffs that he set,&#8221; Lutnick told &#8220;Fox News Sunday,&#8221; adding that Trump was looking to increase access for U.S. firms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He said the ultimate decision would be up to Trump, who has said there is a 50-50 chance a deal can be reached with the EU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Andrea Shalal in Edinburgh and Ahmed AbouleneinEditing by Peter Graff)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Reuters) -The European Union must open up its markets for U.S. exports in order to convince U.S. President&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":98280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,79,17785,5005,18579,33284,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-98279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-howard-lutnick","11":"tag-president-donald-trump","12":"tag-tariff-rate","13":"tag-the-european-union","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114928571164510963","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98279","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=98279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}