{"id":433135,"date":"2025-07-23T20:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/07\/23\/dazi-ue-e-usa-vicine-allaccordo-tariffe-reciproche-del-15-per-cento\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T09:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T07:12:06","slug":"tariffs-eu-and-us-close-to-agreement-15-per-cent-reciprocal-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/07\/23\/tariffs-eu-and-us-close-to-agreement-15-per-cent-reciprocal-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tariffs, EU and US close to agreement: 15 per cent reciprocal tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Reciprocal 15 per cent tariffs on each other’s exports, with an exemption regime on certain types of products<\/strong>, the most sensitive ones: the US and the EU are reportedly close to a trade agreement<\/strong> based on these conditions, which would be a mutually beneficial solution: the EU would avoid an open trade war with the US by limiting the damage compared to the 30 per cent tariffs scenario threatened by the White House<\/a>, while the US side would bring home a useful result to sell to its public opinion, as well as for its own economy. <\/p>\n

According to the agreement <\/span>reportedly on the table between the European Union and the United States, generalised horizontal 15 per cent<\/strong> tariffs would be applied, similar to the <\/span>agreement reached between the US and Japan<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/span> <\/strong>This is, however, a basic tariff<\/strong>, to which the surcharge under the “Most Favoured Nation” clause<\/a> (MFN) would still apply. This is a trade tariff under the rules of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) applied to imports from those countries that have a better balance in bilateral trade. The special tariff is calculated net of preferential tariffs under free trade agreements and other schemes or tariffs applied within quotas.<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/07\/15\/tariffs-eu-technicians-in-the-us-to-negotiate-commission-we-want-agreement-by-1-august\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The EU and the US are negotiating the possibility of exemptions for specific products. According to the draft agreement, Europe would be willing to accept <\/strong>a 15 per cent tariff regime, in any case a step back from the 10 per cent flat rate proposal<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, in exchange for exclusions on sensitive products such as aircraft, alcohol, and medical devices.<\/strong> The automotive sector is crucial, especially for Germany: The European Commission and its Trade Commissioner, Maros Sefcovic, negotiating on behalf of the 27, would like a 15 per cent alignment also for cars, which are currently subject to a 27.5 per cent tariff. <\/p>\n

The EU, however, is preparing for the worst<\/strong>, i.e. for the possibility of a no-deal. That is why the Commission, after consultation with the member states, has prepared a list of US goods to be hit with retaliatory measures in the event of an open tariff war. This list affects goods worth \u20ac90<\/strong> <\/strong>and is the result of the merger of the two previous lists: the first, worth \u20ac21 billion, was finalised in March, and the second, worth \u20ac72 billion, was <\/span>finalised in recent weeks. In the end, therefore, for US President Donald Trump, there also comes a \u20ac3 billion “rebate”. <\/p>\n

However, the special \u20ac90 billion countermeasure “bazooka” would not be triggered immediately, i.e. on 1 August, the date set by the US administration for the introduction of tariffs on European products. In the worst-case scenario, the European retaliatory measures would be triggered on 7 August<\/strong>. EU sources anticipate that in the event of a failure to reach an agreement in the Council, there would already be a broad consensus to find a qualified majority vote to implement the EU Anti-Coercion Instrument<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The deal appears to be done and could be announced soon, but the EU has a 90 billion bazooka ready in case of no agreement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":239391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[31257,26411,26279,26598,26413,25987],"class_list":["post-433135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-trade-en","tag-dazi-en","tag-ue-stati-uniti-en","tag-maros-sefcovicat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433136,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433135\/revisions\/433136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}