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EU Push to Protect Digital Rules Holds Up Trade Statement With US, FT Reports
Disputes over the EU's Digital Services Act delay finalizing the trade deal, which covers $84 billion in goods and aims to reduce tariffs to 15%, officials said.
- On Sunday, efforts to finalize a joint trade statement between the European Union and the United States stalled as Brussels insisted on safeguarding its flagship digital regulations.
- Amid rising tensions, wording disputes over the EU’s Digital Services Act have stalled negotiations, with Washington pressing for flexible wording and Brussels insisting on protection from being labeled as non-tariff barriers.
- Negotiators are ironing out issues such as capping car tariffs and future sectoral duties at 15%, finalizing product lists, and a steel and aluminum framework, but the delay has affected progress.
- Analysts say the impasse could prompt U.S. retaliatory tariffs on European goods or WTO disputes over digital barriers, which the US labeled 'non-tariff barriers'.
- This impasse could undermine broader efforts to align on semiconductors and green technology amid rising geopolitical tensions with China and hinder innovation ecosystems in AI and e-commerce.
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EU digital regulations delay final statement on EU-US trade deal
As widely expected, what the US administration likes to describe as 'non-tariff barriers', including EU digital regulations, are holding up signing of EU-US trade deal, the Financial Times reports. Read more: EU digital regulations delay final statement on EU-US trade deal – report
EU push to protect digital rules holds up trade statement with US: report
The European Union is trying to prevent the US from targeting the bloc's digital rules as both sides work through the final details of a delayed statement to formalize a trade deal reached last month, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
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