Moscow called an EU-US trade deal ‘anti-Russian’ as the US formally took over its former energy market.
The United States has sought to formally position itself as Europe’s biggest seller of protection and energy security following a $750bn trade deal on Sunday.
The deal, clinched by US President Donald Trump and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen at Trump’s Turnberry golf resort in Scotland, imposes a 15 percent tariff on European pharmaceutical, automobile and semiconductor exports to the US, to balance a European trade surplus, von der Leyen said.
Tariffs of 50 percent, which Trump previously imposed on European aluminium and steel, will also remain, while the European Union will not impose any reciprocal tariffs.
The bloc also committed to spending $250bn a year on US energy exports over and above present levels until 2027, and “hundreds of billions of dollars” on US weapons.
