In exactly one month (July 9th 2025) the 3 -month suspension expires dictatorial announced by the US President, Donald Trumpat the expense of the EU.
However, the EU has not yet come to an end, though which duties in US imports will increase if Trump decides to maintain a 10%rate.
This is because newsit.gr reports that the US -EU negotiations, and in particular, between US Minister of Commerce, Howard Lutnik and Community Commissioner Maros Shefkovic do not make any progress, while Trump -Merz’s statements at the time They did not show any light on the horizon.
If this “darkness” continues until the beginning of the next month, then the US in the best case will continue to impose 10% duties, which apply from April 9, 2025, in the “interim” case they will impose 20% -as Trump had announced on April 2, 2025, while not imposing -no more than 50%. President) Certainly over 20%.
The same sources on newsit.gr say that if Trump finally decides to hold the rate of 10%, then the EU will not respond to retaliation, as the impact on its economy can be manageable.
The same is not the case if Trump imposes 20% duties, especially higher. In this case, European retaliation should be excluded, but no one has to consider it “data”.
The next steps
Valid information points out how:
The Commission has asked the governments of the EU Member States to send to Brussels, in consultation with productive bodies of their respective countries, a list of US products, which, if the EU imposed, would not seriously hit each economy.
The Commission will gather these lists from each EU Member State and will draw up a proposal to US imports that could impose additional duties. This proposal will be discussed in an emergency (not yet announced) EU Ministers of Commerce Council on July 14, that is, 5 days after the expiry of Trump’s suspension, in order to make decisions on whether and on which US imports will impose increased duties.
The target that has already announced the EU for potential duties in US imports of 95 billion euros in retaliation to US duties to European imports could be revised downwards if the value of US products incorporated into the European list is at least 95 billion.