{"id":3971,"date":"2020-02-20T02:37:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T02:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=3971"},"modified":"2020-02-20T02:37:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T02:37:07","slug":"eu-says-it-is-willing-to-scrap-car-tariffs-in-us-trade-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=3971","title":{"rendered":"EU says it is willing to scrap car tariffs in US trade deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"art\"><figcaption>\n<p>European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmstrom | Emmanuel Dunand\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<header>\n<h1>EU says it is willing to scrap car tariffs in US trade deal<\/h1>\n<p class=\"subhead\">Malmstr\u00f6m insists discussions are not about &#8216;restarting TTIP&#8217; but aiming for &#8216;a more limited trade agreement.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<footer class=\"meta\">\n<p>\n\t\t\tBy\t\t\t<span class=\"byline\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"vcard\">Hans von der Burchard<\/span>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.ligamxshop.com\/atlas-541.html' title='Tienda Atlas'>Tienda Atlas<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"timestamp\"><time datetime=\"2018-08-30T12:03:46+00:00\">8\/30\/18, 12:03 PM CET<\/time><\/p>\n<p class=\"updated\">Updated <time datetime=\"2019-04-19T01:42:20+00:00\">4\/19\/19, 1:42 AM CET<\/time><\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<p>Brussels is willing to scrap tariffs on all industrial products, including cars, in its trade talks with the United States,\u00a0EU trade chief Cecilia Malmstr\u00f6m said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe said that we are ready from the EU side to go to zero tariffs on all industrial goods, of course if the U.S. does the same, so it would be on a reciprocal basis,&#8221; Malmstr\u00f6m told the European Parliament&#8217;s trade committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are willing to bring down even our car tariffs down to zero \u2026 if the U.S. does the same,\u201d she said, adding that\u00a0\u201cit would be good for us economically, and for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Malmstr\u00f6m&#8217;s comment goes beyond what was agreed in July in the joint statement between European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and U.S. President Donald Trump, which only mentioned eliminating tariffs, non-tariff barriers and subsidies for &#8220;non-auto industrial goods.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brussels and Washington are holding preparatory trade talks to define the scope of a potential future agreement. During a first meeting in Washington last week, an EU proposal for including cars in the discussions was rejected by the U.S.,\u00a0POLITICO reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The EU&#8217;s car tariff of 10 percent is higher than the general U.S. auto tariff of 2.5 percent, but America imposes a 25 percent duty on light trucks and pickups.<\/p>\n<p>Malmstr\u00f6m insisted that the discussions are not about &#8220;restarting TTIP&#8221; but aiming for &#8220;a more limited trade agreement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Agriculture would not be in the agreement, nor public procurement as it looks to today,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-frag-list layout-linear article-in-this-section article-section-remove\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<footer class=\"content-credits\">\n<h6>Authors:<\/h6>\n<dl class=\"vcard\">\n<dt class=\"credits-author\"><span class=\"vcard\">Hans von der Burchard<\/span>&nbsp;<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmstrom | Emmanuel Dunand\/AFP via Getty Images EU says it is willing to scrap car tariffs in US trade deal Malmstr\u00f6m insists discussions are not about &#8216;restarting TTIP&#8217; but aiming for &#8216;a more limited trade agreement.&#8217; By Hans von der Burchard Click Here: Tienda Atlas 8\/30\/18, 12:03 PM CET Updated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}