The proposal, seen by Euractiv, spans wine, cheeses, robots and healthcare
The European Commission has drawn up a list of hundreds of products – from Roquefort cheese to industrial robots – that it wants Washington to exempt from the 15% tariff under the EU-US Turnberry deal, according to a proposal seen by Euractiv.
In the document, the Commission argues the EU has already delivered on its side of the tariff pact – agreed in Turnberry, Scotland, last summer – by eliminating tariffs on hundreds of US industrial and agri-food products from 1 July.
Brussels is now asking the US to apply its standard tariff rates to hundreds of EU exports.
The Commission argues the products were selected because they support US reindustrialisation, key US constituencies such as farmers, energy and security objectives, or are considered irreplaceable.
