The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the president of the United States, Donald Trump, have arrived this Sunday in An agreement to end the US trade war against the EU That has been prolonged since the beginning of March, as European sources have advanced to a group of journalists.
The agreement includes 15% tariffs on European productsas well as Purchases of American energy and military equipment by the EUas announced shortly after the US President. Trump has also reported that, by virtue of this pact, the EU accepts to buy energy from her country worth $ 750 billion and invest additional $ 600,000 million in military equipment.
Washington, meanwhile, will apply a fixed tariff to community imports, including cars, 15%, instead of 30% with which he had threatened from August if there was no pact. In addition, according to Trump, European countries will access zero tariffs to US imports, although the US president has not given more details.
Since last April, the United States imposes on European exports a minimum tariff of 10%, which initially announced 20%, but reduced half as a gesture of “truce” to negotiate an agreement with the EU.
In his meeting prior to the meeting, the US president already anticipated that he did not contemplate, even in the case of reaching an agreement, that the commercial tariffs of the European Union were to be less than 15%, something with what the Brussels authorities already had.
Pharmaceutical products are excluded
Pharmaceutical products are excluded from this negotiation, according to Indico the Republican leader in press statements at the end of his meeting with Von der Leyen. “I think we both wanted to reach an agreement,” said Trump, after giving a handshake with the twenty -seven representative, whom he has received in his Turnberry golf complex, west of Scotland.
“This negotiation began months ago, so we knew what we got into” and there was an intention to “reach a satisfactory agreement for both parties,” he said. “It will be very good for everyone,” said Trump, who has reiterated that the agreement with the EU, which has a market of 800 million consumers, “is the largest of all.”
“Certainty and stability”
Meanwhile, the president of the European Commission has said that the tariff agreement reached with the US It brings a necessary “certainty and stability” For community companies. The president has made these statements when arriving at the airport to return to Brussels after meeting with the US president.
After closing the pact, the community delegation has moved to the airport, where von der Leyen is expected to make statements. Trump received Von der Leyen in the framework of a four -day personal trip to Scotland, which will culminate on Tuesday with a visit to his other golf course near Aberdeen, in the Northeast Scottish.
The president will also interview on Monday in Turnberry with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, with whom he will address the bilateral tariff agreement, as well as the Wars of Ukraine and Gaza.
