President Donald Trump announced a major trade agreement with the European Union (EU) on Sunday, which sets a start of 15 percent on European import – including cars – and at the same time retained 50 percent tasks on steel and aluminum. Als onderdeel van de deal heeft de EU toegewijd aan de aankoop van $ 750 miljard in Amerikaanse energieproducten.
Trump announced the agreement during a press conference with chairman of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen after a private meeting in Trump Turnberry in Scotland.
The EU will buy three -quarters of a trillion dollar in US energy, while he also invests $ 600 billion in America on top of existing investments. Bovendien zullen EU -landen tarieven vaststellen voor Amerikaanse goederen met nul procent, en Europa was het ermee eens “Unpleasant purchase A quantity by military
“We not know What That number is, “zei hij, maar merkte verder op dat de aankoop van militair materieel in de” honderden miljarden dollars zou zijn. ”
“So we have a rate of 15%, we have the opening of all European countries that I think I could say they were essentially closed,” Trump said. “I mean, you did not exactly accepted our orders, you did not exactly accept our agriculture, and then you would have smaller things, but for the most part it was closed and now it is open.”
When asked which concessions the US would make to the EU, Von der Leyen emphasized that this was about re -balancing the surplus that Europe had and the shortage that the US had in the relationship.
“The starting point was an imbalance, a surplus on our side and a shortage on the American side, and we wanted to balance the trade relationship again, and we wanted to do it in a way that trade between the two of us over the Atlantic Ocean, because the two largest economies should have a good commercial current between us,” she said.
“I think we have touched exactly the point that we wanted to find: again in balance, but make trade possible on both sides, which means good jobs on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, means prosperity on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and that was important for us,” she said.
suggested The fact that Brussels’s decision to make concessions to Trump was due to pressure from the EU member states, pointing to recent comments from the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who pressed a quick agreement. “It would be better to be quick and easy than long -term and complicated and still in the negotiating status for months,” said Merz.
In 2024 overschreed de totale handel tussen de VS en de EU in goederen en diensten € 1,68 biljoen of ongeveer $ 1,8 miljard. This accounts for almost 30 percent of global trade and 43 percent of global gross domestic product, making it the world’s largest bilateral trade relationship.