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julesh @julesh@mathstodon.xyz

1/20/2026, 6:52:07 PM

Public

It doesn't seem to be widely reported that the EU will be imposing some chonky tariffs on the US starting in a couple of weeks (source: BBC news)

Approval of the EU US trade deal that was agreed in July is set to be suspended by the European Parliament, according to sources close to the parliament’s international trade committee.

The suspension is set to be announced in Strasbourg tomorrow afternoon.

An agreement between President Trump and Ursula von der Leyen was made at Trump’s golf course in Scotland in July.

It lowered US tariffs on all its imports from the EU to 15%, which was seen as a good deal at the time given Trump has been threatening 30% import taxes.

However the deal needs approval from the European Parliament, but the international trade committee haven’t finished scrutinising it yet.

On Saturday, within hours of President Trump’s threat of US tariffs over Greenland being issued influential German MEP Manfred Weber said “approval is not possible at this stage”.

While the deal was being finalised the EU suspended its retaliatory tariffs on €93bn worth of goods that it buys from the US.

That suspension ends on 6 February and without either an extension or parliamentary approval of the deal, EU tariffs on US goods will come into force on 7 February.

As we've been reporting, a EU-US trade deal that the European Parliament was due to ratify next week is set to be suspended.

In July 2025, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met with President Trump at his golf course in Scotland and came away with tariffs of 15% on everything the EU sells to the US.

This was better than the 30% America had originally threatened.

For its part, Brussels had also prepared a package of tariffs that would come into force if it failed to reach an agreement with the US.

That included tariffs on €93bn (£80bn; $108bn) worth of goods that the US sells to the EU - including everything from livestock to whiskey to aircraft parts. The agreement meant those taxes were suspended while details were worked out.

But if the EU does not sign off on last year's deal, the tariffs on billions of euros worth of American goods will kick in on 7 February.

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