MEPs watered down conditions on implementation after EU governments rejected tougher safeguards
The European Parliament and EU governments agreed early Wednesday on the terms for implementing the so-called “Turnberry deal,” the trade pact struck between Brussels and Washington last summer.
Under the agreement, reached last July at US President Donald Trump’s Scottish golf resort, the EU would eliminate tariffs on hundreds of US industrial and agricultural goods in exchange for a 15% tariff on most EU exports to the US.
Trump recently accused Brussels of dragging its feet over implementation and warned the bloc to enforce the deal by 4 July or face fresh tariffs.
After hours of negotiations in Strasbourg, lawmakers and EU states agreed to attach several conditions to the pact that go beyond the original political agreement.
