The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said this Sunday that See “50% probability” to achieve a tariff agreement with the European Unionbut noted that “the lack of equity” supposedly by Brussels is one of the obstacles to achieve it.
Trump has made these statements at the beginning of his meeting in his Turnberry golf complex, in western Scotland, with the president of the European Commission, Ursula von de Leyen, who for its part He has trusted to close what would be “the May agreement of the world”.
In the press question of the press, The president has confessed that he was in a bad mood And he has clarified that it was not for golf, which he played this morning: “Golf is always beautiful, it can never be bad,” he said.
On the other hand, it seemed to indicate that it was because for his country “commerce with the European Union has been hard”, due to the perception that Brussels applies excessive lien to US exports.
“If we do not reach a pact, there will be tariffs”
“If we do not reach a pact, there will be tariffs”said the Republican leader, in allusion to his threat of unilaterally applying 30% fixed rates to community imports from August 1.
Von der Leyen, on the other hand, has remarked that the US and the EU “are the largest economies in the world”, with a commercial volume of 1.7 billion dollars, and has recognized that it is about “rebuilding” the bilateral relationship since the United States has a commercial deficit with the twenty -seven.
Trump has also rejected that his administration is willing to offer less than 15% of tariffs to the community block, which is the percentage that, according to negotiation sources, would be agreed as a solution to avoid a commercial war on both parties as of August.
Although the intention is collaborative, von der Leyen reaches the appointment backed by a package of retaliation countermeasures worth 93,000 million euros, which would apply in a staggered way if there is no understanding.
Brussels has indicated that their priority is stability against a tariff escalation that considers that uncertainty would increase and harm companies.
Trump receives Von der Leyen in his golf complex in Turnberry, in the framework of a four -day personal trip to Scotland that will culminate on Tuesday with a visit to his other golf course near Aberdeen, in the Northeast Scottish.
