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    Trump threatens crippling attack on the EU that’ll leave key industry on its knees

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    By EMILY GOODIN, SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT

    Published: 14:29 EDT, 4 July 2025 | Updated: 14:46 EDT, 4 July 2025

    President Donald Trump has threatened the European Union with a 17% tariff on food exports, according to a new report.

    The threat came ahead of a July 9 deadline to strike a trade deal or else the EU faces a 50% tax on all its goods going into the United States.

    EU officials told the Financial Times the move is an escalation between the two trading partners. 

    It was unclear if the 17% hit on food and farm exports would be in addition to the other tariffs announced by Trump or instead of them. The value of EU food exports to the US, including products such as wine, reached almost $58 billion last year.

    Should the U.S. and EU fail to cut a deal by next week’s deadline, then EU goods imported to the U.S. could be hit by duties of up to 50%.

    That could be swiftly followed by retaliatory measures from the EU that would target a wide range of American goods, including food stuffs and technology.

    Trump threatens crippling attack on the EU that’ll leave key industry on its knees

    President Trump is pushing a 17% tax on all foods from EU into the US

    The U.S.-EU trade relationship is one of the biggest in the world, accounting for around 30% of global goods.

    Among the products exchanged are medicinal and pharma products, road vehicles, and food stuffs.

    In 2024, trade between the two was valued at around 1.68 trillion euros – or $1.98 trillion.

    The EU has a surplus of 198 billion euros when it comes to goods, but a deficit of around 148 billion euro in services given the Europeans an overall trade surplus of around 50 billion euros. 

    Trump has repeatedly railed against the European Union, accusing it of taking advantage of the United States. 

    The EU was ‘formed to screw the United States,’ he has charged repeatedly. 

    Negotiations have been challenging. 

    Reports say the two sides are  working on a five-page draft ‘agreement in principle’, but it has very little agreed-upon text in it. 

    ‘What we are aiming at is an agreement in principle,’ European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday, adding that a detailed agreement was ‘impossible’ to reach during the 90-day reprieve.

    She also warned that, if no agreement is reached, ‘all the instruments are on the table.’ 

    European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned that, if no agreement is reached, 'all the instruments are on the table.'

    European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned that, if no agreement is reached, ‘all the instruments are on the table.’

    Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent seemed hesitant about the odds of agreement being reached before the July 9th deadline.

    ‘We’ll see what we can do with the European Union,’ he told CNBC’s ‘Squawk on the Street’ on Thursday.

    EU officials may accept maintaining the 10% baseline tariff for most goods in exchange for sectoral exemptions, per reports.

    The bloc wants immediate relief for pharmaceuticals, aircraft, semiconductors, and alcohol exports – critical industries where supply chains span the Atlantic.

    European negotiators, however, are not being helped by internal divisions among its 27 members – some nations want to accept higher tariffs in return for a period of certainty and others want to retaliate to put pressure on Trump to compromise. 

    Friedrich Merz, chancellor of Germany, the EU’s biggest and most export-dependent economy, has been pressing the commission, which runs trade policy, to settle for a quick deal. 

    He wants exemptions from Trump’s 25% tariff on vehicles and 50% on steel. 

    French President Emmanuel Macron, however, insists on full reciprocity 

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