Dousa (The Moderate Party) writes in a statement that it is good that the EU is postponing the countermeasures to give time for continued negotiations. They will try to erase the question marks that still remain since the President of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen and the President of the USA Donald Trump agreed on a framework agreement on July 27.
In the framework agreement, the tariff level in the USA for most EU goods is set at 15 percent. Trump threatened on Tuesday that the EU will get tariffs of 35 percent if they do not meet the requirements in the tariff agreement.
Dousa sees the continued negotiations as a step in the right direction, but then he continues to clarify that the EU's weapons are still loaded even if they have been temporarily laid down in their arsenal.
"If it turns out that the USA does not live up to the agreement, the countermeasures can be quickly activated. The EU must be ready to push back hard to defend our interests”, he writes.
The EU previously approved in July countermeasures against the USA's tariffs worth over 1 billion kronor that could be introduced if no agreement had been reached.
