The United States Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnickhas affirmed that the European Union is at the end of the tail to reach a commercial agreement with its country. This Wednesday,
“I am optimistic and I think we can get it with Europe, but it will probably be very, very in the end,” Lutnick warned in statements to the American television network CNBC collected by Bloomberg. He also assured that Brussels’s behavior was being until recently, in his opinion, “more than spiny.”
In this sense, the Community Executive, which speaks for the 27 in commercial matters, has already made clear at the end of May that it would “accelerate” the conversations after Trump threatened to impose new taxes of 50% to the European goods as of June.
However, after a telephone conversation with the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyenthe Republican agreed to postpone the new batch of tariffs until July 9 with the aim of opening space to dialogue and finding a long -term solution.
Despite the announced truces, the United States maintains 25% tariffs on the steel and European aluminum and on car imports and car parts, while the 20% rate on the other products is temporarily reduced by 10 points. The EU, on the other hand, maintains its entire response in suspense as a gesture of good will.
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