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Šefčovič in Washington emphasized the importance of a balanced EU – US trade agreement

by AI | 26.Mar 2025 | Europe in brief AI

Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic said during his visit to the USA that the EU wants to have balanced trade relations with Americans.

Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič from the USA stated that the EU wants balanced trade relations. PHOTO: TASR/Jaromír Novak

Brussels – The EU’s priority is a fair and balanced trade agreement instead of unjustified tariffs. This was stated during his working visit to Washington on Tuesday by the European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security Maroš Šefčovič. This is reported by the Brussels correspondent of TASR.

On the social network X on Tuesday evening (European time), Šefčovič specified that in the capital of the United States, he had intense but substantive discussions in the past 24 hours with US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, US President Donald Trump’s highest trade official Jamieson Greer, and with the director of the National Economic Council (NEC) Kevin Hassett.

“The hard work continues,” Šefčovič wrote in a short message from Washington, explaining the benefits of economic and trade transatlantic cooperation to the new US administration as early as February 20 this year. In February, he even offered the American side, on behalf of the EU executive, an agreement to reduce tariffs on industrial goods, including cars.

“The EU’s priority is a fair and balanced agreement instead of unjustified tariffs. We share the goal of industrial strength on both sides,” Šefčovič said on the network X.

Last week on Thursday (March 20), Šefčovič announced that the European Union could postpone the implementation of the first set of countermeasures against US tariffs on steel and aluminum until mid-April. The original proposal of the European Commission was to introduce these retaliatory measures from the beginning of April. (March 25)

“The EU’s priority is a fair and balanced agreement instead of unjustified tariffs. We share the goal of industrial strength on both sides.” Maroš Šefčovič