{"id":33153,"date":"2025-07-04T16:33:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=33153"},"modified":"2025-07-04T16:33:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:33:58","slug":"us-threatens-eu-with-17-tariff-on-food-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=33153","title":{"rendered":"US threatens EU with 17% tariff on food exports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\">Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington, business and the world<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=d947b21a-18a4-473a-8dd1-e01920c4b644&amp;newsletter-id=65b8fec772badb00166eafc6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>The US has threatened to hit EU agricultural exports with 17 per cent tariffs in a dramatic escalation of its trade conflict with Brussels, said three people briefed on the discussions.<\/p>\n<p>The eleventh-hour move came ahead of a July 9 deadline to agree a trade deal, after which the US has said it will impose 20 per cent tariffs on all EU goods should no agreement be reached.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump wants Brussels to give US companies wide-ranging exemptions from regulations and to cut its trade surplus with the US.<\/p>\n<p>Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d, the EU trade commissioner, was handed the warning on Thursday in meetings in Washington and it was passed on to the 27 member state ambassadors on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ursula von der Leyen, the European commission president, said on Thursday that she hoped for an \u201cagreement in principle\u201d that would allow the sides to keep talking pending a final deal.\u00a0However, Washington is pushing countries to agree binding deals by Trump\u2019s deadline.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/d947b21a-18a4-473a-8dd1-e01920c4b644\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":33154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}