According to the “Financial Times”, establishing a customs rate of 15 percent. to EU goods exported to the United States, brought to representatives of the community “relief due to the avoidance of a trade war, which is intertwined with regret due to the lack of a more firm position from the very beginning of negotiations“With the administration of Donald Trump.
The daily clearly states that the EU was crushed by the US President's machine, citing the statement of one of the EU diplomats, who stated that “Trump calculated exactly where our pain threshold is“.
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“FT” resembles the actions of the Minister of Trade and Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland Simon Harris, who has had meetings with American politicians many times in recent weeks, wanting to protect the pharmaceutical, alcohol and agricultural industry of his countryin particular the sale of beef, in front of the Trumpy duties.
Achieving the contract between the US President and the chairwoman of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen causes a division on the Irish island, because entrepreneurs from Northern Ireland, belonging to the United Kingdom, can sell their goods to the USA by paying a duty of 10 percent.
According to the “Guardian” daily, it creates “the foundations for difficult diplomatic conversations on the guarantee of maintaining stability all over the island as part of a large -trinket agreement.” The newspaper also quotes Harris's commentary, who said that he “regrets” the 15 % customs rate, but added that the “unity” of the EU countries is important.
The BBC noticed that the agreement reached in Scotland “brings many benefits to the United States, but it is less clear what benefits it will bring the EU“.
The British sender analyzes the words of von der Leyen, who spoke during a meeting with the US president about “restoring balance” in trade relations. As BBC reminds, earlier the EU claimed that this relationship did not lack balance, because the EU is buying many more services from America than it sells.
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“It sounded as if von der Leyen deliberately spoke Trump to seal the agreement,” BBC believes.
“One thing is certain: Trump celebrates the conclusion of the largest trade agreement in history” – the station summed up.
