EU's Sefcovic told US counterparts that tariffs unjustified

Maroš Šefčovič criticises US tariffs in talks with trade minister Howard Lutnick as unjustified. EPP boss Weber also sees an opportunity in the customs dispute.

EU's Sefcovic told US counterparts that tariffs unjustified

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic said on Friday that he told U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer that U.S tariffs were unjustified.

The Trade Commissioner has talked for two hours with his US counterpart via videoconference and has transferred to him that the tariffs are harmfulThe EU warns him that “he has what he needs to overcome the storm” Two hours of video call. This is what has lasted the first exchange of the Trade Commissioner, Maros Sefcovic, with his US counterpart, Howard Lutnick, and ambassador of that country after the earthquake caused by Donald Trump by annou…

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Šefčovič spoke with Lutnicky and Greer about American tariffs, negotiations are ongoing

Brussels – Negotiations between the European Commission (EC) and the US administration regarding the so-called reciprocal tariffs will continue with further rounds. This was stated on Friday evening by European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security Maroš Šefčovič, as reported by the Brussels correspondent of TASR. Šefčovič confirmed on the social network X that the negotiations via video call with US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick a…

“I had a frank two-hour exchange of words with the Secretary for Commerce [of the United States], Howard Lutnick, and with Ambassador Jamieson Greer, and I was very clear: the tariffs are harmful and unjustified,” wrote the European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security, Maros Sefcovic, on social media. The European commissioner insisted that relations between the USA and the European Union “need a fresh approach”, insisting on cooperatio…