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President Donald Trump shakes hands with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, as US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller clap after an announcement of a trade deal between the US and EU in Turnberry, Scotland, on July 27.
The EU has pledged to buy $750 billion of energy from the U.S. in exchange for a lower rate tariff rate in its trade deal, but analysts say this is unrealistic.
The United States and the European Union have reached a preliminary trade deal to avoid a 30% U.S. tariff on imported goods from the EU that President Donald Trump threatened would go into effect on Aug.
Trump had most recently threatened tariffs of 30% on imports from the European Union. But on Sunday, he met with the president of the European Commission, and they agreed to a lower level.
President Trump said he reached a trade agreement on Sunday with the European Union, avoiding a damaging trade war with the U.S.’s largest trading partner and marking his biggest deal so far in his attempt to remake the global trading system through higher tariffs for U.S. trading partners.
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Scripps News on MSNTrump strikes trade deal with EU, imposing 15% tariff on imports. What it meansPresident Trump has struck a new trade deal with the European Union that will impose a 15% tariff on most goods from the EU, a reduction from previously threatened tariffs had a deal not been reached.
The EU, a group of countries with shared economic interests, exports about $2 trillion worth of goods to the U.S. The 27 countries had hoped for a lower tariff of 10%, similar to the deal Trump negotiated with the U.K. and well below the original threat of 30% tariffs, but most analysts expected something closer to 15%.
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Tuesday's analysis warns of economic and political costs, especially in swing states with significant manufacturing sectors, like Michigan and Wisconsin.