{"id":433832,"date":"2025-08-12T14:51:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/08\/12\/lue-dazi-e-ucraina-non-sono-due-questioni-legate-tra-loro\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T15:15:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:15:05","slug":"eu-tariffs-and-ukraine-are-separate-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/08\/12\/eu-tariffs-and-ukraine-are-separate-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"EU: &#8216;Tariffs and Ukraine are separate issues&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; Following&nbsp;the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/07\/28\/eu-us-reach-tariff-deal-15-rate-and-eu-commitment-to-energy-purchases-from-the-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcement of the tariff deal<\/a>, the agreement has largely disappeared. There is no joint EU-US statement clarifying, with a unified&nbsp;interpretation, the content of the new tariff regime, nor is it clear when it will be ready. &#8220;The US has made very clear commitments; we don&#8217;t know when they will take effect, but we know they will,&#8221; said <strong>Olof Gill,<\/strong> the European Commission spokesman responsible for trade. As&nbsp;with everything else, &#8220;questions should be directed to&nbsp;the US &#8211;&nbsp;<strong>we are in wait-and-see mode.&#8221;\u200b<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As far as Brussels is concerned, the work is&nbsp;done &#8211; all that remains is&nbsp;to&nbsp;finalize the list of exemptions from&nbsp;the 15% tariffs. The EU is patiently waiting. Officials are tight-lipped on the delays in Washington. Still, the deputy head of the spokesperson&#8217;s service, <strong>Arianna Podest\u00e0<\/strong>,&nbsp;wants to make one thing clear: &#8220;<strong>I do not believe that managing&nbsp;the conflict in Ukraine and trade relations with the EU are two interconnected dossiers.&#8221;<\/strong> In other words,\u200b a delay in the implementation of the tariff agreement does not depend on the US president&#8217;s activism in international politics.<\/p>\n<p>Confirmation that they are two separate issues could come during the<strong> telephone summit, organized for Wednesday, 13 August, between the White House occupant, the Ukrainian president, some EU leaders, and the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen<\/strong>. The situation at the moment seems clear, but Donald Trump&#8217;s continued objections to the Europeans, who are considered overly&nbsp;&#8220;friendly&#8221; to Volodymyr Zelensky, could influence the general picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission is waiting for the US to implement the understanding reached at the end of July. Still, the Kyiv-Moscow conflict is not considered a reason to justify the delays on the joint declaration and the entry into force of the 15% tariff regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":423363,"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":[25705,25707],"tags":[31881,26279,26598,26413,29477,30781],"class_list":["post-433832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-world-politics","tag-arianna-podesta-en","tag-trade-en","tag-dazi-en","tag-ue-stati-uniti-en","tag-olof-gill-en","tag-ukraine-in-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433832","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=433832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433833,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433832\/revisions\/433833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}