Ursula von der Leyen has introduced she’s going to meet Donald Trump this weekend, in a last-ditch effort to keep away from the US president’s threatened 30% levy on EU exports coming into into pressure subsequent month.
“Following an excellent name with @POTUS [Trump], we have now agreed to satisfy in Scotland on Sunday to debate transatlantic commerce relations, and the way we will hold them robust,” the European Fee president wrote on X on Friday.
The announcement comes amid rising hopes in EU capitals that Brussels might clinch a deal just like the one Washington struck with Japan earlier this week, which would go away the bloc dealing with a 15% common levy on most exports to the US.
Trump has already imposed a 50% tariff on metal and aluminium, a 25% responsibility on vehicles and automobile elements, and a ten% baseline levy that presently have an effect on €370 billion value of EU items, or 70% of the bloc’s complete exports to the US.
These duties come on prime of the 4.8% common responsibility confronted by EU exporters previous to Trump’s return to the White Home in January. EU diplomats imagine the hoped-for deal’s 15% baseline contains the earlier 4.8% levy, thus successfully leaving the established order in place.
The EU yesterday accredited retaliatory tariffs concentrating on €93 billion value of US exports that can enter into impact on 7 August if no deal is agreed – six days after Trump’s 30% levy is ready to be imposed.
Earlier on Friday Trump informed reporters that there was a “50/50 likelihood” that the EU might clinch an settlement.
“I might say that we have now a 50/50 likelihood, perhaps lower than that, however a 50/50 likelihood of constructing a cope with the EU,” Trump informed reporters shortly earlier than flying to Scotland, the place he’ll go to his golf resorts and meet with British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.
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