The president of the United States, Donald Trump, and the president of the European Commission, Úrsula von der Leyen, meet this Sunday in Turnberry (Scotland) to try Close a beneficial tariff agreement for both parties and thus avoid a commercial war from August 1.
As stated on the White House agenda, the meeting It will take place in the golf complex that Trump has in the British country and will begin at 3:30 p.m. This meeting is part of the four -day personal trip that the tycoon has held and will culminate with the visit to its other golf complex located in Aberdeen on Tuesday.
Von der Leyen will not be the only president with whom Trump will meet. Monday plans to meet With the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, to treat its own bilateral commercial agreement, as well as with the Principal Minister of Scotland, John Swinney. Precisely, the latter has welcomed the European leader, framed in the tensions that it maintains with the United Kingdom after what happened in Brexit.
The president of the European Commission has reached this summit with the intention of reaching an agreement that satisfies both parties, which Avoid European exports tariffs of 30% which plans to implement the United States from the first day of next month. As reported to the ‘EFE Agency’ diplomatic sources, the two parties They seem to have good harmony And they are working on A 15%tax, similar to the agreed this week between Japan and the US.
Upon arrival in Scotland, the Republican leader said that “There is a 50%probability” to close a pact, and assured that there are still “About twenty issues to solve”. However, he stressed that, if achieved, “This would be the biggest agreement of all.” Trump has marked the objective of reducing the commercial deficit of his country with the EU and has accused Europe of imposing 30% tariffs on its exports. But reality, according to the World Trade Organization (WTO), is that the percentage that is applied on average does not exceed the 4.1% in industrial products and 11% in agricultural ones.
With everything and, despite the good prevailing atmosphere, the European president has come to meet a Batters for the value of 93,000 million eurosapproved by 26 of the 27 countries of the block.
In the event that there are no progress, a First package that would go into force on August 7 and that would tax American products in response to tariffs that Washington has already imposed for a value of 50% to European imports of steel and aluminum. They would only be excluded, in principle, soy and almonds, until December 1.
The second group of measures would have a even higher value and would apply between September and February 2026. These would include 25% tariffs on cars and components, in addition to the export restrictions of metal scrap towards the US.
The value of exports made by the EU last year amounted to 606,000 million dollars, for the 370,000 signed by the US. The difference, with which Trump intends to finish, was 236,000 million dollars.
