The United States did not say that the EU wanted to raise trade tariffs, the European Commission said after a two-hour meeting between trade negotiators made two parties a little progressed.
EU trade commissioner Maros Sefcovich met on Monday, the secretary of the Howard Lutnik store’s shop to talk about how to remove the so-called reciprocal tariffs that have imposed the US, along with steel bills, aluminum and cars, but the US side failed to make its demands.
“We have to hear more than Americans. We have to have a clearer idea of what their preferred outcomes are in these negotiations,” he said EU stores Spokesman Olof Gill on Tuesday.
Gill said the chief repeated the offer to rejection of all the industrial goods tariffs.
“The EU is doing its part. Now it is necessary to define their position. As with any negotiations, this must be a two-way street … On both sides that have brought something,” he said.
The White House and Trade Department did not immediately respond to the commentary request.
Now they listed a long set of complaints when he imposed and then paused, reciprocal tariffs In most of the world this month. But the budgets were based on a trade excess in the goods between them and the USA. The EU received 20 percent, based on excess goods of $ 235 billion, which he had in 2024.
Donald Trump said that the EU should buy more furnished natural gas, to which Brussels agreed in principle.
The US president also attacked the EU because he did not buy enough cars and “non-Tariff barriers” that exclude US chicken-washed chlorine-based chemicals and beef from hormone feeding cattle. He directed the VAT of his digital regulation.
A few days from the imposition of Tariff Trump, he lowered them and applied only 10 -a long levy for almost all countries for 90 days, at the same time encouraging partners to seek contracts for a permanent reduction in duties.
However, on Monday, he also instructed officials to prepare fresh measures against semiconductor and pharmaceutical products. The chief repeated the importance of resistant transatlantic supply chains in these sectors, Gill said.
Gill said the meeting was “focused” and a zero tariff plan and global too large capacity in the steel industry and aluminum industry were covered.
But he added that food safety standards were “Sakroznice”.
“The commissioner reiterated that the EU and now share many challenges and can solve them together in favor of both sides,” he said.
“The EU will continue to approach these conversations in a constructive way, with the aim of identifying the area of common interest. It is clear that significant common efforts will be required to achieve a successful outcome within the 90-day window.”
The EU paused its retaliation of tariffs in response to the collection of steel and aluminum until July 14th. He continued to work on further measures for other tariffs, Gill said, in case there was no agreement.
A officer from the Office of the US trade representative said: “Numerous countries have been very responsible for the readiness of the United States to negotiate and talk quickly. US officials have repeatedly announced the president’s trade policy to their colleagues of the European Union regarding the need to lower tariffs and non-Tariff barriers.”
Additional Aime Williams reporting in Washington