During a meeting with 27 EU members on Wednesday, the newly appointed head of the Commission’s trade department, Ditte Juul Jørgensen, said that while Brussels was confident that Washington would honor the commitments listed under the Turnberry plan, it was prepared to react if it did not, three EU diplomats familiar with the talks told POLITICO.
One added that ambassadors would be ready to convene an extraordinary meeting next week “to talk strategy and discuss possible countermeasures.”
At the same time, though, no one knows when the next tax will come.
“We don’t adhere to a specific schedule. We aim to meet statutory and regulatory requirements,” Greer. he said after the hearing in the United States Senate.
Even if the administration has yet to finalize tariffs under the more urgent investigation of forced labor imports, it has several legal avenues available to prevent any loopholes once the temporary tariffs — imposed under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 — expire.
Washington could still reimpose the 10 percent tariff for another 150 days, or declare that any new tariffs would resume on July 25. according to Greta Peischwho was the general counsel for the US Trade Representative under former President Joe Biden. These options are legally risky, however, and a US trade court has already ruled that Trump’s use of the existing 10 percent tariff is illegal.
