🚨BREAKING: The United States and European Union struck a trade agreement locking in a 15 percent tariff, days before Donald Trump’s deadline to do a deal or face tariffs double that level. Full story: ow.ly/UeIZ50WvLJv
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15% tax hike on American consumers and businesses, you mean. And yet he should be focusing on deals with Canada, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, and of course China - countries that can do serious damage to the US if he starts trade wars with them.
jul 27, 2025, 5:57 pm • 11 0 • view
So that’s a 15% price increase for Americans
jul 27, 2025, 6:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Does the EU know and have they made a statement about the agreement?
jul 27, 2025, 6:09 pm • 0 0 • view
I wonder if Donald the Dirtbag will hold to the agreement? 🤣
jul 27, 2025, 6:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Not a trade agreement, just higher taxes on Americans.
jul 27, 2025, 6:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Trump taxes on Americans
jul 27, 2025, 5:55 pm • 15 0 • view
I thought it was a framework?
jul 27, 2025, 6:12 pm • 0 0 • view
What happens if those unwanted and unneeded goods of all kinds arrive in Japan of the EU or the UK and nobody buys them?
jul 27, 2025, 6:05 pm • 0 0 • view
More taxes U.S. citizens and residents will have to pay!!! European countries planned to purchase US weaponry anyway as part of the deal to arm Ukraine. European countries agreed to provide weapons to Ukraine and in return the U.S. would resupply the European countries with U.S. made weaponry.
jul 27, 2025, 6:19 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 27, 2025, 6:10 pm • 0 0 • view
I hope EU will introduce a 15% Tech tax, else it will just look weak
jul 27, 2025, 6:54 pm • 1 0 • view
You are full of shit, you hack rag.
jul 27, 2025, 6:38 pm • 1 0 • view
Taxation without representation is tyranny!!
jul 27, 2025, 6:07 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s not a fucking agreement
jul 27, 2025, 6:00 pm • 29 0 • view
How is agreeing to an additional 5% on top of an already absurd 10% increase a “trade agreement” and not a slap in the face??
jul 27, 2025, 6:49 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s not a ‘trade agreement’, it’s capitulation. #BuyEuropean It’s a fake #TradeAgreement bsky.app/profile/buye...
jul 27, 2025, 8:26 pm • 13 1 • view
It's capitulation agreement, let's call it what it is.
jul 28, 2025, 2:00 am • 0 0 • view
They screwed us over. Seems like EU leaders aren't fighting.
jul 27, 2025, 6:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Looks like nobody here believes a word you say Politico. And that doesn’t seem to bother you at all? Because you’re not journalists. You’re propagandists.
jul 27, 2025, 7:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Isn't just a "framework" and a tax on Americans?
jul 27, 2025, 6:01 pm • 3 0 • view
💩
jul 28, 2025, 1:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Hurray?
jul 27, 2025, 5:57 pm • 0 0 • view
These are Trump PR announcements not a ‘deal’ - why can’t you provide professional clarity rather than echo his PR? Does journalism even matter at Politico?
jul 27, 2025, 6:11 pm • 2 0 • view
Lol. The mere fact you report it as a “deal” and not a tax hike gives you about as much credibility as the dumb idiot that announced it. Do better, you’re supposed to cover politics, not clowns.
jul 27, 2025, 6:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Any deal with Rapist Fraudster Trump is worthless.
jul 27, 2025, 6:06 pm • 2 0 • view
This is a lie.
jul 27, 2025, 7:05 pm • 0 0 • view
It's not an agreement. Stop printing lies.
jul 27, 2025, 6:39 pm • 1 0 • view
It's not a trade agreement you brown nosing tools
jul 27, 2025, 6:16 pm • 9 0 • view
It’s fascist apologia from the outfit whose owner called on all the employees to pray for a Trump victory before the election.
jul 27, 2025, 7:34 pm • 0 0 • view
what a shame EU could just have taken a one month trade war
jul 27, 2025, 7:12 pm • 1 0 • view
“Trade agreement” is a funny way of saying “taxes on American consumers.”
jul 27, 2025, 6:08 pm • 0 0 • view
This will be contradicted by Trump in like 48 hours or less
jul 27, 2025, 6:20 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s a vanity deal, not a real deal, only congress can approve it.
jul 27, 2025, 6:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Basically the EU totally bent over. Good on trump showed what losers run the EU. Germany, Italy and France are mainly responsible for this fiasco.
jul 27, 2025, 6:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Germany is behind this - Merz wanted a deal, no matter how bad for the EU.
jul 27, 2025, 6:51 pm • 1 0 • view
I don't exclude Italy.
jul 27, 2025, 6:52 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't think Italy is that powerful, to be honest.
jul 27, 2025, 6:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Politico is garbage part 8,548
jul 27, 2025, 6:06 pm • 10 0 • view
Now only to hear what EU President says about it
jul 27, 2025, 5:56 pm • 4 0 • view
[Insert 100 expletives here] The worst they could have done. Give the Angry toddler everything he wants without providing any learning experience on how he should actually behave. It is going to get worse and worse and worse. Thumbs down.
jul 27, 2025, 5:56 pm • 10 0 • view
Is this like the one from Japan that makes it cheaper to drive Japanese cars in the US? Also made getting American vehicles in Japan. A place where NOBODY drive American cars, really. Because I would really like to see how it's a deal and not just a paper embarrassment made by the Whiter House?
jul 27, 2025, 6:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, it is exactly the same.
jul 27, 2025, 8:08 pm • 0 0 • view
So 15% instead of 10%? I don’t even know what is actually real or fake anywhere but the American people are getting hosed is what’s happening. We are paying for a billionaire tax cut and every media publication should frame it that way.
jul 27, 2025, 5:59 pm • 9 0 • view
15% instead of the current 5%
jul 27, 2025, 9:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Is it an agreement? Words matter
jul 28, 2025, 2:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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jul 28, 2025, 10:49 pm • 0 0 • view