U.S. President Donald Trump shakes fingers with European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen, after the announcement of a commerce deal between the U.S. and EU, in Turnberry, Scotland, on July 27, 2025.
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President Donald Trump introduced Sunday that the U.S. reached a commerce take care of the European Union, following pivotal discussions with European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen days earlier than the Aug. 1 tariff deadline.
Trump stated that the deal imposes a 15% tariff on most European items to the U.S., together with vehicles.
Some merchandise, together with aircrafts and their parts, some chemical substances and prescription drugs, won’t be topic to tariffs, von der Leyen stated in a briefing after the settlement was introduced. She additionally stated that the brand new 15% tariff charge wouldn’t be added to any tariffs already in impact.
The 15% tariff charge is decrease than the 30% charge Trump had beforehand threatened in opposition to the US’ largest buying and selling accomplice, however greater than the ten% baseline tariffs the EU hoped for.
Trump stated that the 27-member bloc additionally agreed to buy $750 billion price of U.S. power and make investments an extra $600 billion price of investments into the U.S. above present ranges.
He stated that the bloc would even be “buying tons of of billions of {dollars} price of army tools,” however didn’t present a particular greenback quantity.
“It is a very highly effective deal, it is a very large deal, it is the most important of all of the offers,” Trump stated Sunday alongside von der Leyen.
“It is a whole lot, it is an enormous deal, with robust negotiations,” von der Leyen stated after the assembly.
Whereas questions stay in regards to the particular particulars and timeline of the EU investments, the settlement marks a pivotal second for Trump, following weeks of uncertainty surrounding the U.S.-EU commerce talks.
Trump throughout a press convention earlier than his assembly with the European chief stated that there was a 50-50 likelihood they might attain a framework of a deal.
Brussels had been getting ready for a no-deal state of affairs if the commerce talks devolved forward of Aug. 1.
Lawmakers had permitted a significant package deal of counter-tariffs, which might have focused a spread of U.S. items. The bloc additionally thought of deploying the EU’s “Anti-Coercion Instrument,” a transfer seen because the buying and selling bloc’s “commerce bazooka.”
European leaders react
European leaders had been fast to applaud the settlement amid aid that the bloc had seemingly averted a commerce conflict, however some voiced warning in regards to the phrases of the deal.
Eire’s Prime Minister Micheál Martin stated the settlement “brings readability and predictability to the buying and selling relationship between the EU and the US,” in keeping with a assertion.
“It does imply that there’ll now be greater tariffs than there have been and this may have an effect on commerce between the EU and the US, making it dearer and more difficult,” Eire’s Division of the Taoiseach stated.
Nonetheless, the settlement “creates a brand new period of stability,” the assertion continued.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz welcomed the brand new accord, citing the advantages it might deliver to the nation’s auto trade.
“With the settlement within the EU-US negotiations on tariffs a commerce battle, which might have hit the export-oriented German financial system arduous, has been averted,” he stated in a assertion.
“That is very true for the auto trade, for which the present tariffs of 27.5% had been virtually halved to fifteen%. Particularly right here the fast tariff discount is of nice significance,” he added.
Netherlands Prime Minister Dick Schoof stated, in a submit on X Sunday, that “no tariffs would have been higher,” however praised the European Fee for securing one of the best settlement doable.
He stated the deal underway “supplies extra readability for our companies and brings extra market stability.”
Italy’s authorities leaders, together with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, issued a press release saying the deal helps keep away from a “direct conflict between the 2 sides of the Atlantic,” and “ensures stability” between the U.S. and European Union.
The assertion additionally stated Italy thought of tariffs at 15% to be “sustainable,” if that share contains, and isn’t along with, earlier tariffs.
The U.S.-EU commerce relationship was valued at 1.68 trillion euros ($1.97 trillion) when taking into consideration each companies and items buying and selling in 2024, in keeping with the European Council.
Whereas the EU recorded a surplus on items buying and selling, it famous a deficit within the companies realm. This left the EU with an total commerce surplus of round 50 billion euros with the U.S. final 12 months.
— CNBC’s Terri Cullen contributed to this report.
