And on the nth day, the answer came. . The president of the United States has communicated it in a letter addressed to the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, which has disseminated this Saturday in his social network Truth Social.
After and after a constant pull and loosen with pauses, warnings and rumors, Trump has moved file. “As of August 1, 2025, we will charge the European Union a tariff of only 30% On EU products sent to the United States, independent of all sectoral tariffs, “he published.
Given this step, tariff with the US to achieve an agreement before August 1, but It does not rule out “proportionate” countermeasures to “safeguard” European interests.
For both the US and the EU it is imperative to close a pact that avoids even higher levies, not in vain the Brussels-Washington commercial route is the first for the twenty-seven in terms of the exchange of goods.
As corresponding to 2024, the United States is the main country receiving ‘community’ goods, with 20’6% of the total and the second in terms of imports, with 13’7% and only exceeded by 21’3% of China. That, it is not necessary to say it, there are many billions in Liza, who now face an era of uncertainty. But what are all those millions translated?
With two giants doing business, the list of products with origin Brussels and destination USA is endless. But in him entirely which shapes the 532,000 million euros (532 billion) only in 2024 there are some specially relevant sectors. Are the cases of the Pharmaceutical industry, alcohol, semiconductors and aeronautics. In fact, the EU herself tried to protect them with which she used the White House days ago.
Of all of them, the pharmacology It is the great battlefield, between Medical and Pharmaceutical Products. Brussels sent a 119’8 billion eurosa game that has shot with respect to the data prior to the pandemic. Today already expects what happens with tariffs, this represents nothing less than a 22’5% of the entire export business.
Behind, the Industrial and Mechanical Machinery encompasses a 90’9 billion billing (17’1%), followed by the Automotive and transport industrywhose sum reaches 70 billion (13’2%). Fourth appears the electronic and electricity industry (45’5 billion in 2024, for 8’5% of global computing). Among the four categories They concentrate 61’3% of the 532 billion reached last year.
For importance, the following conglomerates are food and drinka business that meant in 2024 25’8 million euros for the EU, the metal and derivatives (24’9), the scientific instrumentaland called precision (22’8), while the field of the chemical And derivatives reaches 22’2 billion.
In relation to the countries that make up the EU, the great exporter is Germany, with an amount of 161,215 million euros in 2024, according to Eurostat. Ireland, a country closely to the US for migratory reasons, is the second community partner with more quantitative weight —72.085 – exceeding commercial powers such as Italy – 64,759 million -, France —47,064 million -, the Netherlands —43.430—, Belgium —32,958 million – and Spain, which appears in seventh position in the internal list With an export volume of 18,179 million euros
The Spanish case is especially significant because, at the end of 2024, it was one of the few EU members with commercial deficit in exports/imports with the US, reaching a result of -5,981 million according to the official European statistics. Only the Netherlands is below, with a shooting deficit of 24,736 million euros.
On the other side, Brussels also nourishes the products made in USAand even more from the Copernican turn that supposed the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Approved the multiple sanctions to the Putin regime, the EU was forced to look for new markets – or significantly reinforce the supply – in oil and gas, including the American. From there the main product with origin USA, oil oils, followed by medicines and drugs and a third sector, that of motors and parts of non -electric vehicles.
