EU 'fully committed' to reaching US trade deal, says commissioner 

'Good calls' with US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick

The European Union remains "fully committed" to reaching a trade agreement with the United States, the bloc's trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic said Monday following calls with US counterparts. 

Sefcovic said in a post on X that he had "good calls" with US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and Ambassador Jamieson Greer, adding: "We continue to stay in constant contact". 

US President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to impose 50-percent tariffs on the bloc from June 1, voicing frustration that talks were "going nowhere". 

But he agreed Sunday to delay the heftier levies on the EU until July 9 after a phone call with EU chief Ursula von der Leyen.

The EU remains subject to a 10-percent tariff that Trump imposed last month on imports from nearly every country around the world, along with 25-percent duties on cars, steel and aluminium.

 

                

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