The current level of tariffs charged on goods entering the US from the EU is 15%, under a deal negotiated last July.
The deal was eventually approved by the European Parliament in March, but only after a clause had been added, allowing it to be suspended if the Trump administration was deemed to have “undermined the objectives of the deal, discriminated against EU economic operators, threatened member states’ territorial integrity, foreign and defence policies, or engaged in economic coercion”.



