The EU’s prime govt physique has urged US President Donald Trump to not impose new tariffs on the bloc’s items and to make clear his place following a US Supreme Courtroom ruling that struck down most of his earlier measures.
On Friday, the Supreme Courtroom dominated that Trump had no authority to impose tariffs below the 1977 Worldwide Emergency Financial Powers Act (IEEPA). Trump responded by signing an order imposing a ten% international tariff via a special legislation and later mentioned he would increase it to fifteen%. He denounced the justices who dominated in opposition to him as “a shame to the nation.”
In an announcement on Sunday, the European Fee requested “full readability” on Trump’s intentions, including that the present state of affairs isn’t consistent with the promise of “honest, balanced, and mutually useful” commerce as envisaged within the EU-US joint assertion from August 2025.
“The Fee will at all times be sure that the pursuits of the European Union are totally protected. EU corporations and exporters should obtain honest therapy, predictability, and authorized certainty,” Sunday’s assertion reads.
The bloc argued that its items shouldn’t be subjected to tariff will increase “past the clear and all-inclusive ceiling beforehand agreed.”
“Tariffs are taxes, driving up prices for each shoppers and companies, as latest research clearly verify,” the fee mentioned.
Trump has lengthy accused the remainder of the world of “ripping off” the US, arguing that sweeping tariffs are wanted to guard home producers and fight what he described as unfair commerce practices. He has additionally used commerce as political stress, vowing to impose extra tariffs on European nations opposing his plan to annex Greenland from Denmark.
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