Nearly four months after the signing of a trade agreement between the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the American head of state, Donald Trump, the United States continues to pressure the European Union (EU) to make more concessions. Monday, November 24, at the Twenty-seventh Council of Trade Ministers meeting in Brussels, the American Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, and the American Trade Representative, Jamieson Greer, traveled to the Belgian capital to air their complaints.
The White House expects Europeans in particular to relax their digital regulations, with several investigations already open against Apple, Google, X or Meta, such as their competition laws, which recently saw Google fined 3 billion euros. Only under these conditions, he said, could he reconsider the 50% import duties currently imposed on steel and aluminum, as well as their derivative products, such as machines and other robots that load them.
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