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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is demanding<\/a><\/span> that Brussels sign a trade deal with the US within days.<\/p>\n

Bringing the issue to the agenda of today’s EU leaders’ summit, Merz described the European Commission’s negotiating strategy this week as “too complex.”<\/p>\n

Calling for greater urgency and focus in negotiations with the US president, Merz said he would convey this demand to other EU leaders, alongside Emmanuel Macron and Giorgia Meloni.<\/p>\n

The leaders are eagerly awaiting an update from the EU’s executive body during dinner on its talks with the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

Concerns are growing that if Brussels and Washington fail to reach an agreement, “reciprocal” 50% tariffs will be imposed on all goods starting July 9.<\/p>\n

The bloc, which had previously dismissed the recent UK-US trade deal\u2014a pact that imposed a 10% baseline tariff while offering some relief for car and steel exports\u2014is now coming to terms with the reality that securing a better outcome will be challenging.<\/p>\n

“I still hope that a trading power like the EU, with its 450 million people, will have more leverage than the UK,” a senior EU diplomat said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The German chancellor stated that the priority must be to protect Europe’s key industries\u2014particularly Germany’s automotive, manufacturing, semiconductor, pharmaceutical, steel, and aluminum sectors\u2014from the sector-specific tariffs that Trump has either imposed or threatened to impose.<\/p>\n

However, Trump is heavily reliant on these tariffs, having implemented the highest rates since the Great Depression of the 1930s to compel manufacturers to move production to the US and close the nation’s trillion-dollar trade deficit.<\/p>\n

The US trade deficit with the 27 EU member states reached a total of $232 billion in 2025, accounting for approximately 19% of the total figure.<\/p>\n

Underpinning Merz’s demands is a persistent concern that Brussels might establish a broad framework centered on a flat 10% tariff for most common goods, rather than isolating sectoral tariffs on items like cars, which he argues harms German exporters.<\/p>\n

Another EU diplomat noted that keeping a broad-based tariff in place was “not a task we gave the European Commission,” adding, “We hope the Commission will try to find a solution for the most at-risk sectors.”<\/p>\n

Merz’s call to “get the job done” faces two primary obstacles. First, the EU negotiating team has warned that Washington will likely offer only minor concessions, such as limited tariff reductions tied to restrictive quotas, after which full tariff rates would apply.<\/p>\n

This is a far cry from the zero-tariff agreement Merz had initially hoped to achieve and closely resembles the UK deal, the only one struck with Trump so far.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, negotiations with the US on Germany’s biggest demand\u2014automobiles\u2014are proving particularly difficult.<\/p>\n

Merz and German automakers are pushing for a mechanism that would allow them to offset their vehicle imports into the US with models they export from their American production facilities.<\/p>\n

Economy Minister Katharina Reiche presented such a proposal during her visit to the US earlier this month. Both BMW and Mercedes-Benz operate large factories in the US that produce certain models for global export. However, considering the EU exports over 750,000 vehicles to the US annually, it remains unclear how much relief a limited quota agreement would provide to car manufacturers if Trump rejects this proposal.<\/p>\n

Brussels, on the other hand, is hopeful that Trump’s long-standing desire for the EU to align with US automotive regulations will serve as a strong enough bargaining chip to ease the pressure on the auto sector.<\/p>\n

In a scoping paper sent to member states in May, the Commission revealed it had offered to align with US regulations on autonomous vehicles. This is seen as a major concession, especially after similar discussions on automotive reciprocity led to the collapse of a transatlantic trade deal a decade ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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